Analysis of New Eyes Each Year
Philip Larkin 1922 (Coventry) – 1985 (Hull)
New eyes each year
Find old books here,
And new books,too,
Old eyes renew;
So youth and age
Like ink and page
In this house join,
Minting new coin.
| Scheme | ABCDEEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111 1111 011 1101 1101 1101 0111 1011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 140 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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