This is an analysis of New Year's Eve by David Herbert Lawrence.

There are only two things now,
The great black night scooped out…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaX bcb dXd aXaXccc
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,7,
  • Metre: 1110111 011111 10100 010001 110111 11101 100101 101011110 1111 110111 111100 01001 10101011 10100111 011011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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