This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxix that begins with:
Ancient of days! What word is thy command
To one befooled of wit and his own way?... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdXX
- 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: 1001110101 01100011011 11011111001 1011110001 1101111101 0111110011 1111010101 0101111101 1111000101 0011111100 0101101101 1111110101 0101011101 11111110000
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 622
- Average number of words per stanza: 118
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; what, thy are repeated.
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