This is an analysis of Old Friendship by Eunice Tietjens.
Beautiful and rich is an old friendship,
Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbcabXc
- Stanza lengths: 8,
- Metre: 1001101110 10001110100 1111110100 1111010011 1011101110 1111010100 110111110110 0111011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: ottava rima
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 8
