Analysis of The Year
Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1855 (Janesville) – 1919
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of a year.
Scheme | AA BB CC DD EE FF |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 11110111 11110101 01110111 11111111 11110101 11110101 11010111 11110111 11111111 1110111101 11111111 01010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 441 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 54 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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