Analysis of If Death Is Kind
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,
And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending
Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white.
We will come down at night to these resounding beaches
And the long gentle thunder of the sea,
Here for a single hour in the wide starlight
We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
Scheme | ABAB XCBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111110111010 1111111101 01111101010 101100101 1111111101010 0011010101 11010100011 1111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 379 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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