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

Yes, Italy is wise, a cultured prude,
Stored with all maxims of a statelier age;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbabaXcXcdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1100010101 10110001001 1101011101 0011010111 0111011101 11011101001 1001010100 1001011101 1011110010 11000111001 1001011100 1111101101 1101110111 1101011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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