Analysis of I Thought of You
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.
Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.
Scheme | ABXB AAXA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 11110111110 0101011101 11011001010 110111110 011001001011 0101010101 11111101010 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 354 |
Words | 70 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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