Analysis of The Storm
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I thought of you when I was wakened
By a wind that made me glad and afraid
Of the rushing, pouring sound of the sea
That the great trees made.
One thought in my mind went over and over
While the darkness shook and the leaves were thinned --
I thought it was you who had come to find me,
You were the wind.
Scheme | AABA XABA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 1011111001 1010101101 10111 11011110010 1010100101 11111111111 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 306 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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