Analysis of Sunset: St. Louis
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset,
When I came home again from far-off places,
How many times I saw my western city
Dream by her river.
Then for an hour the water wore a mantle
Of tawny gold and mauve and misted turquoise
Under the tall and darkened arches bearing
Gray, high-flung bridges.
Against the sunset, water-towers and steeples
Flickered with fire up the slope to westward,
And old warehouses poured their purple shadows
Across the levee.
High over them the black train swept with thunder,
Cleaving the city, leaving far beneath it
Wharf-boats moored beside the old side-wheelers
Resting in twilight.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001011101 11110111110 11011111010 11010 111100101010 1101010110 10010101010 11110 01011010010 10110101110 011011101 01010 11010111110 1010101011 1110101110 1001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 610 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 125 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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