Analysis of The Crystal Gazer
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I shall gather myself into my self again,
I shall take my scattered selves and make them one.
I shall fuse them into a polished crystal ball
Where I can see the moon and the flashing sun.
I Shall sit like a sibyl, hour after hour intent.
Watching the future come and the present go -
And the little shifting pictures of people rushing
In tiny self-importance to and fro.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101011101 11111010111 111101010101 11110100101 111101010101001 10010100101 0010101011010 0101010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 147 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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