Analysis of Come
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Come, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,
Come with arms outstretched to take me,
Come with lips pursed up to cling.
Come, for life is a frail moth flying,
Caught in the web of the years that pass,
And soon we two, so warm and eager,
Will be as the gray stones in the grass.
Scheme | XAXA ABXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110111010 10010111 11101111 1111111 111101110 100110111 011111010 111011001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 312 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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