Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet III

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)



I will break through my bondage. Let me be
Homeless once more, a wanderer on the Earth,
Marked with my soul's sole care for company,
Like Cain, lest I do murder on my hearth.
I ask not others' goods, nor wealth nor worth,
Nor the world's kindness, which should comfort me,
But to forget the story of my birth,
And go forth naked of all name, but free.
Where the flowers blow, there let me sit and dream.
Where the rain falls, ah! leave my tears their way.
Where men laugh loud, I too will join the hymn,
And in God's congregation let me pray.
Only alone--I ask this thing--alone,
Where none may know me, or have ever known.


Scheme ABACBABADEFEGG
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111 10110100101 1111111100 1111110111 1111011111 1011011101 1101010111 0111011111 10101111101 1011111111 1111111101 001010111 1001111101 1111111101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 618
Words 121
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 34
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 473
Words per stanza (avg) 119
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 09, 2023

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Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

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