This is an analysis of In A Garden by Sara Teasdale.

THE world is resting without sound or motion,
Behind the apple tree the sun goes down…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabaXcXcXXbXacdcXedeXfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 01010011110 0101010111 10010011010 001101 01010100011 10001111101 01010101010 111001 00010111011 1111110101 01010100110 110101 11111100110 0111011101 10010101110 110001 10010011110 010101 11101110 10101 01010100011 0100010111 11010101010 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24