Analysis of The Tree
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Oh to be free of myself,
With nothing left to remember,
To have my heart as bare
As a tree in December;
Resting, as a tree rests
After its leaves are gone,
Waiting no more for a rain at night
Nor for the red at dawn;
But still, oh so still
While the winds come and go,
With no more fear of the hard frost
Or the bright burden of snow;
And heedless, heedless
If anyone pass and see
On the white page of the sky
Its thin black tracery.
Scheme | XAXA BCXC XDXD BXXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 111111 11011010 111111 1010010 101011 101111 101110111 110111 11111 101101 11111011 1011011 011 110101 1011101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 426 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 83 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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