This is an analysis of In The Train by Sara Teasdale.

Fields beneath a quilt of snow
From which the rocks and stubble sleep,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1010101 01011101 10010111 11010101 01010001 01010001 1111001 10110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

in

Anaphora

the