This is an analysis of Did You Never Know? by Sara Teasdale.

Did you never know, long ago, how much you loved me—
That your love would never lessen and never go?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XXXX X
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,1,
  • Metre: 01101101111110 111110101101 101111110 101101 10011111010 10110100101010 101111111110 111101111 010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

you, never

Anaphora

you