New Love, New Life II
’Tis true,--in other daysHave I unbarred the door;He knows the walks and ways--Love has been here before.
Love blest and love accurstWas here in days long past;This time is not the first,But this time is the last.
Words in this poem
- accurst p. p.
- Doomed to destruction or misery; cursed; hence, bad enough to be under the curse; execrable; detestable; exceedingly hateful; -- as, an accursed deed.
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
New Love, New Life II is in the public domain. This text is taken from A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse, Project Gutenberg ebook #56974; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Amy Levy, New Love, New Life II, in A London Plane-Tree, and Other Verse (1889), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #56974, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/levy-london-plane-tree/new-love-new-life-ii.html, id L21533.
Form and metre
New Love, New Life II is 8 lines in 2 stanzas of 4 lines each. Every stanza rhymes ABAB. The metre is iambic trimeter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 91%).
See other poems in iambic trimeter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABAB daysA · doorB · waysA · beforeB
- 2 ABAB accurstA · pastB · firstA · lastB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic trimeter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| ’Tis true,--in other days | 6 | ···/˘· |
| Have I unbarred the door; | 6 | ······ |
| He knows the walks and ways-- | 6 | ······ |
| Love has been here before. | 6 | ······ |
| Love blest and love accurst | 6 | ······ |
| Was here in days long past; | 6 | ······ |
| This time is not the first, | 6 | ······ |
| But this time is the last. | 6 | ······ |
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