Analysis of Change
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Remember me as I was then;
Turn from me now, but always see
The laughing shadowy girl who stood
At midnight by the flowering tree,
With eyes that love had made as bright
As the trembling stars of the summer night.
Turn from me now, but always hear
The muted laughter in the dew
Of that one year of youth we had,
The only youth we ever knew --
Turn from me now, or you will see
What other years have done to me.
Scheme | XAXABB XCXCAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011111 1111111 010100111 11101001 11111111 10100110101 1111111 01010001 11111111 01011101 11111111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 407 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 02, 2023
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