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

Here therefore ends my sad soul's pilgrimage,
In tears for sin and half--redeemed desire.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXabacdcdXX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1111111100 01111101010 1101001101 10010101110 1111110101 1101010011 10010101010 10111110100 1001010011 1000010011 0101010011 1111000101 1111010111 1011010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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