Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet XXXI
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
Yes, Italy is wise, a cultured prude,
Stored with all maxims of a statelier age;
These are her lessons for our northern blood,
With its dark Saxon madness and Norse rage.
With these she tempers us and renders sage,
As long ago she stayed the barbarous flood
Surging against her, and her heritage
Snatched from the feet of that brute multitude.
Calmly she waits us. What to her shall be
Our fevers of to--day, who erewhile knew
Caesar's ambitions? What our pruriency,
Who saw Rome sacked by the lewd Vandal crew?
What our despair, who, while a world stood mute,
Saw Henry kneel in tears at Peter's foot?
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Metre | 1100110101 111101011 11010110101 1111010011 1111010101 11011101001 1001000100 110111110 1011111011 1010111111 100101101 1111101101 11001110111 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 473 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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