Analysis of After Parting
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Oh, I have sown my love so wide
That he will find it everywhere;
It will awake him in the night,
It will enfold him in the air.
I set my shadow in his sight
And I have winged it with desire,
That it may be a cloud by day,
And in the night a shaft of fire.
Scheme | XABA BCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 1111110 11011001 11011001 1111011 011111010 11110111 000101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 260 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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