This is an analysis of Barter by Sara Teasdale.

Life has loveliness to sell,
All beautiful and splendid things,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: AbXbcc AdXdee XeXeXX
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 11100001 11001101 11100101 10101111 11010101 1010101 11100001 1010101 1011001 1111111 11110101 1011101 111111000 10110101 111101001 110010111 11010100 11110110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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