Analysis of New Love, New Life
Amy Levy 1861 (London) – 1889 (London)
She, who so long has lain
Stone-stiff with folded wings,
Within my heart again
The brown bird wakes and sings.
Brown nightingale, whose strain
Is heard by day, by night,
She sings of joy and pain,
Of sorrow and delight.
'Tis true,--in other days
Have I unbarred the door;
He knows the walks and ways--
Love has been here before.
Love blest and love accurst
Was here in days long past;
This time is not the first,
But this time is the last.
Scheme | ABXB ACAC DEDE CFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 111101 011101 011101 110011 111111 111101 110001 110101 11101 110101 111101 11011 110111 111101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 437 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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