Analysis of Evening: New York
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Blue dust of evening over my city,
Over the ocean of roofs and the tall towers
Where the window-lights, myriads and myriads,
Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.
Scheme | ABBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010110 100101100110 10101101 110111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 173 |
Words | 31 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 4 |
Lines Amount | 4 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 135 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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