A New Pilgrimage: Sonnet Xxxi Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBBCDAEFGFHI| Yes Italy is wise a cultured prude | A |
| Stored with all maxims of a statelier age | B |
| These are her lessons for our northern blood | C |
| With its dark Saxon madness and Norse rage | B |
| With these she tempers us and renders sage | B |
| As long ago she stayed the barbarous flood | C |
| Surging against her and her heritage | D |
| Snatched from the feet of that brute multitude | A |
| Calmly she waits us What to her shall be | E |
| Our fevers of to day who erewhile knew | F |
| Caesar's ambitions What our pruriency | G |
| Who saw Rome sacked by the lewd Vandal crew | F |
| What our despair who while a world stood mute | H |
| Saw Henry kneel in tears at Peter's foot | I |
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
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