Analysis of To E.
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I have remembered beauty in the night,
Against black silences I waked to see
A shower of sunlight over Italy
And green Ravello dreaming on her height;
I have remembered music in the dark,
The clean swift brightness of a fugue of Bach's,
And running water singing on the rocks
When once in English woods I heard a lark.
But all remembered beauty is no more
Than a vague prelude to the thought of you --
You are the rarest soul I ever knew,
Lover of beauty, knightliest and best;
My thoughts seek you as waves that seek the shore,
And when I think of you, I am at rest.
Scheme | ABBACBXC DEEFDF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010001 0111001111 0101110100 01110101 1101010001 0111010111 0101010101 1101011101 1101010111 101110111 1101011101 10110101 1111111101 0111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 641 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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