Analysis of Compensation
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I should be glad of loneliness
And hours that go on broken wings,
A thirsty body, a tired heart
And the unchanging ache of things,
If I could make a single song
As lovely and as full of light,
As hushed and brief as a falling star
On a winter night.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111100 010111101 010100101 00010111 11110101 11001111 110110101 10101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 250 |
Words | 53 |
Sentences | 2 |
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) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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