This is an analysis of At Night by Sara Teasdale.

We are apart; the city grows quiet between us,
She hushes herself, for midnight makes heavy her eyes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1101010110011 1100111111001 01001001001110 110111100111 1110111001110 1011011111011 1111101011010 1110111001011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

my, your