This is an analysis of Come by Sara Teasdale.

Come, when the pale moon like a petal
Floats in the pearly dusk of spring,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa abXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 110111010 100101001 10011011 1011101 111001110 100100011 111101110 001011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

come

Anaphora

come