Analysis of Swans
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Night is over the park, and a few brave stars
Look on the lights that link it with chains of gold,
The lake bears up their reflection in broken bars
That seem too heavy for tremulous water to hold.
We watch the swans that sleep in a shadowy place,
And now and again one wakes and uplifts its head;
How still you are -- your gaze is on my face --
We watch the swans and never a word is said.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 11100100111 11011111111 011110100101 1111011001011 110111001001 01001110111 1111111111 11010100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 395 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 38 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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