Analysis of Moods
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I am the still rain falling,
Too tired for singing mirth --
Oh, be the green fields calling,
Oh, be for me the earth!
I am the brown bird pining
To leave the nest and fly --
Oh, be the fresh cloud shining,
Oh, be for me the sky!
Scheme | ABAB ACAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101110 1101101 1101110 111101 1101110 110101 1101110 111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 233 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 15, 2023
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