Analysis of Dew
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
As dew leaves the cobweb lightly
Threaded with stars,
Scattering jewels on the fence
And the pasture bars;
As dawn leaves the dry grass bright
And the tangled weeds
Bearing a rainbow gem
On each of their seeds;
So has your love, my lover,
Fresh as the dawn,
Made me a shining road
To travel on,
Set every common sight
Of tree or stone
Delicately alight
For me alone.
Scheme | ABCBDEFEGHIJDKDK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110 1011 10010101 00101 1110111 00101 10011 11111 1111110 1101 110101 1101 1100101 1111 100001 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 367 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 290 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 69 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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