Analysis of Pierrot
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Pierrot stands in the garden
Beneath a waning moon,
And on his lute he fashions
A fragile silver tune.
Pierrot plays in the garden,
He thinks he plays for me,
But I am quite forgotten
Under the cherry tree.
Pierrot plays in the garden,
And all the roses know
That Pierrot loves his music, --
But I love Pierrot.
Scheme | abxb Acac Axxx |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 110010 010101 0111110 010101 110010 111111 1111010 100101 110010 010101 111110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 314 |
Words | 61 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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