Analysis of In the End
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
All that could never be said,
All that could never be done,
Wait for us at last
Somewhere back of the sun;
All the heart broke to forego
Shall be ours without pain,
We shall take them as lightly as girls
Pluck flowers after rain.
And when they are ours in the end
Perhaps after all
The skies will not open for us
Nor heaven be there at our call.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111011 1111011 11111 11101 1011101 1110011 111111011 110101 011110001 01101 01111011 110111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 342 |
Words | 72 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 90 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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