Analysis of A Little While
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
A little while when I am gone
My life will live in music after me,
As spun foam lifted and borne on
After the wave is lost in the full sea.
A while these nights and days will burn
In song with the bright frailty of foam,
Living in light before they turn
Back to the nothingness that is their home.
Scheme | XAXA BCBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01011111 1111010101 11110011 1001110011 01110111 011011011 10010111 1101001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 293 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 117 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 08, 2023
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