Analysis of Joy
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I am wild, I will sing to the trees,
I will sing to the stars in the sky,
I love, I am loved, he is mine,
Now at last I can die!
I am sandaled with wind and with flame,
I have heart-fire and singing to give,
I can tread on the grass or the stars,
Now at last I can live!
Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 111111101 111101001 11111111 111111 11111011 1111001011 111101101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 275 |
Words | 64 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 99 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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