Analysis of The Giver
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
You bound strong sandals on my feet,
You gave me bread and wine,
And sent me under sun and stars,
For all the world was mine.
Oh, take the sandals off my feet,
You know not what you do;
For all my world is in your arms,
My sun and stars are you.
Scheme | ABXB ACXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111 111101 01110101 110111 11010111 111111 11111011 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 55 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 92 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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