Analysis of Gray Eyes
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
It was April when you came
The first time to me,
And my first look in your eyes
Was like my first look at the sea.
We have been together
Four Aprils now
Watching for the green
On the swaying willow bough;
Yet whenever I turn
To your gray eyes over me,
It is as though I looked
For the first time at the sea.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110111 01111 0111011 11111101 111010 111 10101 101011 101011 1111101 111111 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 305 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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