Analysis of The Old Moon In The New Moon's Arms

Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919



The beautiful and slender young New Moon,
 In trailing robes of pink and palest blue,
Swept close to Venus, and breathed low: 'A boon,
 A precious boon, I ask, dear friend, of you.'

'O queen of light and beauty, you have known
 The pangs of love - its passions and alarms;
Then grant me this one favour, let my own -
 My lost Old Moon be once more in my arms.'

Swift thro' the vapours and the golden mist -
 The Full Moon's shadowy shape shone on the night,
The New Moon reached out clasping arms and kissed
 Her phantom lover in the whole world's sight.


Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF
Poetic Form Traditional rhyme
Quatrain 
Metre 0100010111 0101110101 1111001101 0101111111 1111010111 0111110001 111111111 1111111011 110100101 01110011101 011111101 0101000111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 556
Words 110
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 35
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 139
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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