Analysis of Song at Capri
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
When beauty grows too great to bear
How shall I ease me of its ache,
For beauty more than bitterness
Makes the heart break.
Now while I watch the dreaming sea
With isles like flowers against her breast,
Only one voice in all the world
Could give me rest.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11011111 11111111 11011100 1011 11110101 111100101 10110101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 259 |
Words | 51 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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