Analysis of Driftwood
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
My forefathers gave me
My spirit's shaken flame,
The shape of hands, the beat of heart,
The letters of my name.
But it was my lovers,
And not my sleeping sires,
Who gave the flame its changeful
And iridescent fires;
As the driftwood burning
Learned its jewelled blaze
From the sea's blue splendor
Of colored nights and days.
Scheme | XAXA BXXB XCXC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11011 110101 01110111 010111 111110 011101 110111 001010 10110 1111 101110 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 321 |
Words | 60 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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