This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxiii that begins with:
So I, I am ashamed of my old life,
Here in this saintly presence of days gone,... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcddd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010111 1001010011 0101111001 0101010111 1011010101 1011000101 1011010101 1001010101 1101011100 11110101101 01111100101 11010010111 1011011111 0111010100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 612
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; its, of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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