Analysis of On the Dunes
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
If there is any life when death is over,
These tawny beaches will know much of me,
I shall come back, as constant and as changeful
As the unchanging, many-colored sea.
If life was small, if it has made me scornful,
Forgive me; I shall straighten like a flame
In the great calm of death, and if you want me
Stand on the sea-ward dunes and call my name.
Scheme | XABA BCAC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110111110 1101011111 1111110011 1001010101 11111111110 0111110101 00111101111 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 352 |
Words | 71 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 136 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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