Analysis of May Night
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
The spring is fresh and fearless
And every leaf is new,
The world is brimmed with moonlight,
The lilac brimmed with dew.
Here in the moving shadows
I catch my breath and sing --
My heart is fresh and fearless
And over-brimmed with spring.
Scheme | ABXB XCAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 0111010 0100111 011111 01111 100101 111101 1111010 010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 239 |
Words | 46 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 94 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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