Analysis of The Return
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
He has come, he is here,
My love has come home,
The minutes are lighter
Than flying foam,
The hours are like dancers
On gold-slippered feet,
The days are young runners
Naked and fleet --
For my love has returned,
He is home, he is here,
In the whole world no other
Is dear as my dear!
Scheme | ABCB DEDE XACX |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 111111 11111 010110 1101 0101110 1111 011110 1001 111101 111111 0011110 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 281 |
Words | 59 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 72 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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