This is an analysis of Embers by Sara Teasdale.
I said, "My youth is gone
Like a fire beaten out by the rain,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX XXXX abbb Xcbc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1110101 1010101101 1010111 11001100 111001110 1101101 1101010 1010000 111111 1101 101101001 0111 110101 11001 101101 1101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
