Analysis of Understanding
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I understood the rest too well,
And all their thoughts have come to be
Clear as grey sea-weed in the swell
Of a sunny shallow sea.
But you I never understood,
Your spirit's secret hides like gold
Sunk in a Spanish galleon
Ages ago in waters cold.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1010111 01111111 11111001 1010101 1111001 11010111 10010100 10010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 247 |
Words | 49 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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