This is an analysis of New Year's Eve by Mathilde Blind.

Another full-orbed year hath waned to-day,
And set in the irrevocable past,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cddcdc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 01011011101 1100010001 11111111 11001010101 1111000101 01001111111 11110010101 11010011101 1101110011 0111010000 11100010111 11110100111 0101011101 0101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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