Analysis of Sleepless
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
If I could have your arms tonight-
But half the world and the broken sea
Lie between you and me.
The autumn rain reverberates in the courtyard,
Beating all night against the barren stone,
The sound of useless rain in the desolate courtyard
Makes me more alone.
If you were here, if you were only here-
My blood cries out to you all night in vain
As sleepless as the rain.
Scheme | XAA BCBC XDD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 110100101 101101 0101010001 1011010101 011101001001 11101 1101110101 1111111101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 370 |
Words | 73 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 10 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 98 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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