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

Gods, what a moral! Yet in vain I jest.
The France which has been, and shall be again,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbXbXcdcddd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010111 0111011001 00110010101 01010111001 1100010101 1001010100 1101011101 0011111100 1011010101 1101010111 01000111101 11110101001 1001010110 0101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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