This is an analysis of the poem New Things Are Best that begins with:
What shall I tell you, child, in this new Sonnet?
Life's art is to forget, and last year's sowing... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXcaXca
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 11111100110 11000111110 10110001110 11011011010 11111110110 01111100110 10110110010 01110111010 101000101100 11010011110 1101110011 1111110100 01110101010 1011001111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 122
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 46 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, new are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word new is repeated.
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