Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XL
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Here therefore ends my sad soul's pilgrimage,
In tears for sin and half--redeemed desire.
She was unworthy her high martyr's rage,
Or to be wholly purified by fire.
O Rome, thy ways are narrow and aspire
Too straitly for the knees of this halt age,
And, with the multitude, her forces tire,
Even while she holds thee fast, her heritage.
Path of sublime perfection upon Earth!
Your's is it in the clamour of vain days
To guard the calm eternal of Man's birth
And like an eagle to renew his days.
Give me your blessing, angels, ere I go,
Angels that guard the bridge of Angelo.
Scheme | ABCBDCBAEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111100 01110101010 110100111 1111010110 1111110001 111011111 0101001010 10111110100 1101010011 111001111 1101010111 0111010111 1111010111 101101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 570 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 447 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 106 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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