Analysis of Tides
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the starlike sea gulls soar;
The sun was keen and the foam was blowing
High on the rocky shore.
But now in the dusk the tide is turning,
Lower the sea gulls soar,
And the waves that rose in resistless yearning
Are broken forevermore.
Scheme | ABAB ABAB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1011101110 101111 0111001110 110101 1100101110 100111 001110110 1101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 286 |
Words | 56 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 112 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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