This is an analysis of A New Friend by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward.

The sun is sinking on the sacred lands
Wherein the grain ungarnered beckoning stands.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,
  • Metre: 0101010101 010110001001 1101011111 0101010001 1111011111 1011000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 8