Analysis of June Night
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Oh Earth, you are too dear to-night,
How can I sleep while all around
Floats rainy fragrance and the far
Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?
Oh Earth, you gave me all I have,
I love you, I love you, -- oh what have I
That I can give you in return --
Except my body after I die?
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111111 11111101 11010001 11101011101 11111111 1111111111 11111001 011101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 292 |
Words | 65 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 108 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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