Analysis of The Tree of Song
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I sang my songs for the rest,
For you I am still;
The tree of my song is bare
On its shining hill.
For you came like a lordly wind,
And the leaves were whirled
Far as forgotten things
Past the rim of the world.
The tree of my song stands bare
Against the blue --
I gave my songs to the rest,
Myself to you.
Scheme | ABCB XDXD CEAE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111101 11111 0111111 11101 1111011 00101 110101 101101 0111111 0101 1111101 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 309 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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