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

I will release my soul of argument.
He that would love must follow with shut eyes.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXXbXacacdd
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1001110100 1111110011 1100001001 1101110101 1011010100 0100011111 11010011011 0111010101 0101010101 0011011101 1101110101 1101010111 0101010101 1001010100
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

my, of

Anaphora

my