This is an analysis of The Old Pole Star by Edith Wharton.
BEFORE the clepsydra had bound the days
Man tethered Change to his fixed star, and said:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcX addad edeed fccfc gXggX Xbabba
- Stanza lengths: 5,5,5,5,5,6,
- Metre: 0101001101 1101001111 1101011111 11110101001 11010101110 1101010101 0100110101 1111110111 0100010100 01110011101 0100011101 1101010101 1111001111 1101010101 0111011101 11010100101 011101101 1001010001 1101110111 1101010001 0111110111 1111010011 10010110011 1101000101 11010101100 1101010101 1111011111 1111010111 1101010101 0101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 35
