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

Youth is all valiant. He and I together,
Conscious of strength, and unreproved of wrong,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 10110111010 10011100001 11010101010 1101111101 0101111001 11110011110 1101110101 10011101110 1011001101 10011111101 1101001101 11011011101 1111110101 1011001011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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