Analysis of A Prayer
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Until I lose my soul and lie
Blind to the beauty of the earth,
Deaf though shouting wind goes by,
Dumb in a storm of mirth;
Until my heart is quenched at length
And I have left the land of men,
Oh, let me love with all my strength
Careless if I am loved again.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 01111101 11010101 1110111 100111 01111111 01110111 11111111 10111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 265 |
Words | 57 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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