Analysis of Faults
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
They came to tell your faults to me,
They named them over one by one;
I laughed aloud when they were done,
I knew them all so well before, --
Oh, they were blind, too blind to see
Your faults had made me love you more.
Scheme | ABBCAC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111111 11110111 11011101 11111101 11011111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 221 |
Words | 48 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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