Analysis of Four Winds
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
"Four winds blowing through the sky,
You have seen poor maidens die,
Tell me then what I shall do
That my lover may be true."
Said the wind from out the south,
"Lay no kiss upon his mouth,"
And the wind from out the west,
"Wound the heart within his breast,"
And the wind from out the east,
"Send him empty from the feast,"
And the wind from out the north,
"In the tempest thrust him forth;
When thou art more cruel than he,
Then will Love be kind to thee."
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110101 1111101 1111111 1110111 1011101 1110111 0011101 1010111 0011101 1110101 0011101 0010111 11111011 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 452 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 344 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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