Analysis of Spray
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I knew you thought of me all night,
I knew, though you were far away;
I felt your love blow over me
As if a dark wind-riven sea
Drenched me with quivering spray.
There are so many ways to love
And each way has its own delight --
Then be content to come to me
Only as spray the beating sea
Drives inland through the night.
Scheme | ABCCB XACCA |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (40%) |
Metre | 11111111 11110101 11111101 11011101 1111001 11110111 01111101 11101111 10110101 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 320 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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