This is an analysis of Old And New by Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Long have the poets vaunted, in their lays,
Old times, old loves, old friendships, and old wine…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd eded fafa ghgh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101010011 1111110111 1101100011 110111 1111110111 11101101001 11000110101 110101 1111110001 1101110101 1101010111 110111 11111001001 0101110101 1101101111 110011 1011111111 11110101001 1101110001 110011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
old, and
Anaphora
when
