Analysis of The Look
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Strephon kissed me in the spring,
Robin in the fall,
But Colin only looked at me
And never kissed at all.
Strephon's kiss was lost in jest,
Robin's lost in play,
But the kiss in Colin's eyes
Haunts me night and day.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111001 10001 11010111 010111 111101 10101 101011 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 220 |
Words | 44 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 21 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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