This is an analysis of From The North by Sara Teasdale.

The northern woods are delicately sweet,
The lake is folded softly by the shore,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcede
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110001 0101010101 1111010101 0101010001 1101111111 01010001011 1101101101 1101010101 1111110101 0101110101 1101011101 1101111110 1011011101 0111100101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

the, i