Analysis of A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet V
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 1840 (Petworth House) – 1922 (United Kingdom)
The physical world itself is a fair thing
For who has eyes to see or ears to hear.
To--day I fled on my new freedom's wind,
With the first swallows of the parting year,
Southwards from England. At the Folkestone pier
I left the burden of my sins behind,
Noting how gay the noon was, and how clear
The tide's fresh laughter rising to no wind.
A hundred souls of men there with my own
Smiled in that sunshine. 'Tis a little measure
Makes glad the heart at sea, and not alone
Do wise men kindle to its pulse of pleasure
Here all alike, peers, pedlars, squires, and dames
Forswore their griefs fog--born of Father Thames.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01001011011 1111111111 1111111101 1011010101 11101011 1101011101 1011011011 0111010111 0101111111 1011101010 1101110101 11110111110 1101111001 111111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 481 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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