This is an analysis of Faults by Sara Teasdale.

They came to tell your faults to me,
They named them over one by one;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbcac
  • Stanza lengths: 6,
  • Metre: 11011101 11010111 11011101 11011101 11011101 11111111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 6

Repeated words/phrases

they

Anaphora

they, i