This is an analysis of After Death by Sara Teasdale.

Now while my lips are living
Their words must stay unsaid,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa abXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1111110 111101 1011010 011111 1011010 111101 1111110 111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

you, not