Analysis of Buried Love
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I have come to bury Love
Beneath a tree,
In the forest tall and black
Where none can see.
I shall put no flowers at his head,
Nor stone at his feet,
For the mouth I loved so much
Was bittersweet.
I shall go no more to his grave,
For the woods are cold.
I shall gather as much of joy
As my hands can hold.
I shall stay all day in the sun
Where the wide winds blow, --
But oh, I shall cry at night
When none will know.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 0101 0010101 1111 111110111 11111 1011111 110 11111111 10111 11101111 11111 11111001 10111 1111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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