This is an analysis of the poem New And Old that begins with:

I and new love, in all its living bloom,
Sat vis-à-vis, while tender twilight hours... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaacca dddddd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 1111010101 1111101110 11011101110 1100110101 0111110001 01010000101 1111000101 1101010101 0101110111 0101010001 10010011111 1111110101 10010011111 1111111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 313
  • Average number of words per stanza: 59
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 44 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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  • summary of New And Old;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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