This is an analysis of New Year's Morning by Helen Hunt Jackson.
Only a night from old to new!
Only a night, and so much wrought!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbaXcdcXdbdXdcdceXeX Abab afafghghAcac
- Stanza lengths: 20,4,12,
- Metre: 10010101 10011111 01111101 110111110 01110111 10011101 11000111 100100010 01111101 01000111 111011111 110101100 100111001 11010101 1101101 11110011 11010010 10111101 11010111 1111111100 10010101 10011101 01110101 11110011 11010101 11010101 11011111 10010001 11110101 01010111 11110101 11000101 10010101 10010101 01010111 11110111
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, i, morn, new
Anaphora
only
