This is an analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxviii by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt.
I saw one sitting on a kingly throne,
A man of age, whom Time had touched with white;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbabacdcdaa
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111010101 0101111101 1001110101 1101100101 1001110011 1001010101 1001010101 0111110101 1001110101 0110010101 1011011111 1011111011 01001011101 0110110110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
white, his, and, here
Anaphora
here, the
Anadiplosis
white
