Analysis of Faces
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
People that I meet and pass
In the city's broken roar,
Faces that I lose so soon
And have never found before,
Do you know how much you tell
In the meeting of our eyes,
How ashamed I am, and sad
To have pierced your poor disguise?
Secrets rushing without sound
Crying from your hiding places --
Let me go, I cannot bear
The sorrow of the passing faces.
-- People in the restless street,
Can it be, oh can it be
In the meeting of our eyes
That you know as much of me?
Scheme | xaxa xBxb xcxc xdBd |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101 0010101 1011111 0110101 1111111 00101101 1011101 1111101 1010011 10111010 1111101 010101010 1000101 1111111 00101101 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 97 |
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) | 89 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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