This is an analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Ix by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.

These were in truth brave days. From our high perch,
The box--seat of our travelling chariot, then…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaXaXcXcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001110111 011011001001 1101011101 1111110111 110110111 0101010101 0101010010 1101010101 1101111101 1111010101 1101011101 1011101101 1011111101 0101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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