This is an analysis of If Death Is Kind by Sara Teasdale.
Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning,
We will come back to earth some fragrant night,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab Xcbc X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,1,
- Metre: 0101011110010 1011011101 11110101110 1011010111 1011110101010 1011010001 110101000111 1101010111 010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
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