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…
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