Analysis of New Love and Old
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
In my heart the old love
Struggled with the new;
It was ghostly waking
All night through.
Dear things, kind things,
That my old love said,
Ranged themselves reproachfully
Round my bed.
But I could not heed them,
For I seemed to see
The eyes of my new love
Fixed on me.
Old love, old love,
How can I be true?
Shall I be faithless to myself
Or to you?
Scheme | ABXB XCXC XDAD ABXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 011011 10101 111010 111 1111 11111 1011 111 111111 11111 011111 111 1111 11111 111111 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 350 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 67 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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