This is an analysis of A New Theme by George William Russell.
I FAIN would leave the tender songs
I sang to you of old,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab aaaa cdcd efef fXfX gege
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 110101 10011101 010101 11110101 110101 110001001 010101 11111101 0100111 01010101 110101 11100101 011101 01010111 010101 11010101 010100 01110101 100111 11011101 110101 11100101 100101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
Anaphora
i, the, and