Analysis of Debt
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
What do I owe to you
Who loved me deep and long?
You never gave my spirit wings
Or gave my heart a song.
But oh, to him I loved,
Who loved me not at all,
I owe the open gate
That led through heaven's wall.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111 111101 11011101 111101 111111 111111 110101 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 210 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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