Analysis of Message
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,
Sharp as a flash of light,
My name, my name!
It was your voice I heard,
You waked and loved me so --
I send you back this word,
I know, I know!
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 1101001 010111 110111 1111 111111 110111 111111 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 202 |
Words | 47 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 71 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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