This is an analysis of New Year's Dawn - Broadway by Sara Teasdale.

When the horns wear thin
And the noise, like a garment outworn,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXaaXbccdccaXccXcXdacXXXb
  • Stanza lengths: 25,
  • Metre: 10111 101101010 1001 01011001 11101 10101011 101 101 0110101 1010101 1001001 01001001 11111 01001001 01111011 1001001 1111111 1100111 110010 11010010 11011 011101 101100 101110010 1011
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 25

Anaphora

and

Epiphora

night