Analysis of New Year
Edith Nesbit 1858 (Kennington, Surrey ) – 1924 (New Romney, Kent)
IN the coming year enfolded
Bright and sad hours lie,
Waiting till you reach and live them
As the year rolls by.
In the happy hours and radiant
I would like to be
Somewhere out of sight, forgotten,
Your delight to see.
But when you are tired and saddened,
Vexed with life, dismayed,
I would steal your grief, and lay it
Where my own is laid--
Bleed my heart out in your service
If, set free from pain,
You, through me, found life worth living,
Glad and fair again.
| Scheme | ABXB ACXC AAAA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
| Metre | 001011 101101 10111011 10111 0010100100 11111 1111010 10111 111110010 11101 11111011 11111 11110110 11111 11111110 10101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 472 |
| Words | 91 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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