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

Now you are mine, to-night at last I say it;
You're a dove I have bought for sacrifice,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aba bXb aca aca dXd
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,3,3,3,
  • Metre: 11110111110 1011111101 101110 1011110101 11110111110 11001111 101001111111 1110010010110001 1111 1101001011011 110110011001 11101 11101011101 101011110010 111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: rondeau
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 15

Repeated words/phrases

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