This is an analysis of New And Old by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

I and new love, in all its living bloom,
Sat vis-à-vis, while tender twilight hours…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dddddd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111101110 11011101110 1100110101 0111110001 01010000101 1111000101 1101010101 0101110111 0101010001 10010011111 1111110101 10010011111 1111111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14