Analysis of Spring Torrents
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Will it always be like this until I am dead,
Every spring must I bear it all again
With the first red haze of the budding maple boughs,
And the first sweet-smelling rain?
Oh I am like a rock in the rising river
Where the flooded water breaks with a low call --
Like a rock that knows the cry of the waters
And cannot answer at all.
Scheme | XXXX XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11111101111 10011111101 101111010101 0011101 111101001010 10101011011 10111011010 0101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 332 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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