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

The darkened street was muffled with the snow,
The falling flakes had made your shoulders white,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbabcbaca
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110001 0101111101 1111010001 0101011101 0101010111 1001010001 0111010101 1001010101 0101110111 1001010101 101010101 01011111101 0101011001 1111110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

of, and

Anaphora

the