This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxv that begins with:
At last I kneel in Rome, the bourne, the goal
Of what a multitude of laden hearts!... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdee
- 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: 1111010101 0101010101 1100010101 1101110011 0101010101 1100110011 1101110001 0101010011 11111100011 1101110111 0011000101 1111010101 01010101010 10111101010
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 578
- Average number of words per stanza: 114
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 40 (medium-length strings)
- 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; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word no is repeated.
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More information about poems by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
- Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxi
- Analysis of How Shall I Build
- Analysis of Esther, A Sonnet Sequence: Xxxiii
