Analysis of April
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
The roofs are shining from the rain,
The sparrows twitter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
Yet the back-yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree --
I could not be so sure of spring
Save that it sings in me.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01110101 01010111 01010101 010111 10111101 11010101 11111111 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 255 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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