This is an analysis of the poem A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxviii that begins with:
I saw one sitting on a kingly throne,
A man of age, whom Time had touched with white;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1111010101 0101111101 1001110101 1101100101 1001110011 1001010101 1001010101 0111110101 1001110101 0110010101 1011011111 1011111011 01001011101 0110110110
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 639
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; white, his, and, here are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words here, the are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase white connects the lines.
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