This is an analysis of Dead Love by Sara Teasdale.

God let me listen to your voice,
And look upon you for a space —…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabaXcdcbdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 11110011 11011101 11111101 11010111 11110111 11111101 11111101 11100101 11011101 11110101 11011111 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

your, and, i

Anaphora

and