Analysis of New Year
Katharine Lee Bates 1859 (Falmouth) – 1929 (Wellesley)
WHITE year, white year,
Muffled soft in snow,
A diamond spray whose gems are gone
Before their grace we know,
A crystal-coated spray whose hours
Melt when looked upon,
Hoarfrost stars and hoarfrost flowers,
White year!
Green year, green year,
Sweet with sun and showers,
A windblown spray whose blossoms bright
Are the seven-colored hours,
A dancing spray whose leaves are days,
A spray whose leaves delight
In azure gleam and silver haze,
Green year!
New Year, new year
From rosy leaf to gold,
A shining spray on the Tree of Time
Where myriad sprays unfold,
A spray so fair that God may see
And gather it, bloom and rime,
To deck the doors of Eternity,
New Year!
Scheme | ABCBDEDAADFDGFGAAHIHJIJA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 10101 01011111 011111 010101110 11101 110110 11 1111 111010 0111101 10101010 01011111 011101 01010101 11 1111 110111 010110111 1100101 01111111 0101101 110110100 11 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 523 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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