Analysis of The Old And The New
It's twelve o'clock midnight
a time to say goodbye
and a time to say hello.
A time to break the new,
a time to leave the past.
Yesterday has gone and died
today is no more a mystery
but a new chance.
A chance to better the self,
a chance to do right once more.
It's a twelve o'clock midnight
a time for mourning
and a time for rejoicing.
It's twelve o'clock midnight
a time to say goodbye
and a time to say hello.
| Scheme | ABCxxxxxxx addABC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11011 01111 0011101 011101 011101 101101 011110100 1011 0111001 0111111 101011 01110 0011010 11011 01111 0011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 398 |
| Words | 84 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 10, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 158 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on October 19, 2009
Modified on March 05, 2023
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