Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXII
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Unblest discovery of an age too real!
They needed not the beauty of the Earth,
Who held Heaven's hope for their supreme ideal,
And found in worlds unseen a better birth.
What to the eye of faith were the hills worth,
The voiceless forests, the unpeopled coasts,
The wildernesses void of sentient mirth?
In death men praise thee not, Thou Lord of Hosts!
But when faith faltered, when the hope grew dim,
And Heaven was hid with phantoms of despair,
And Man stood trembling on destruction's brim,
Then turned he to the Earth, and found her fair;
His home, his refuge, which no doubt could rob,
A beauty throbbing to his own heart's throb.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010011111 1101010101 11101110101 0101010101 1101110011 01010011 011111 0111111111 1111010111 01011110101 011100111 1111010101 1111011111 0101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 630 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 499 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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