Analysis of The River
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I came from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,
For I thought in its gray expanses
My peace would come to me.
I came at last to the ocean
And found it wild and black,
And I cried to the windless valleys,
"Be kind and take me back!"
But the thirsty tide ran inland,
And the salt waves drank of me,
And I who was fresh as the rainfall
Am bitter as the sea.
Scheme | ABXB XCAC XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11101010 0110101 111011010 111111 11111010 011101 01110110 110111 1010111 0011111 01111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 368 |
Words | 80 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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