This is an analysis of A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale.

My window-pane is starred with frost,
The world is bitter cold to-night,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabX Xcac Xbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101 01010101 01010101 01011101 11010101 01010011 11010101 11011101 11010101 111100111 11110101 11010001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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