This is an analysis of Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale.

Less than the cloud to the wind,
Less than the foam to the sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa XaXa
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1101001 1101001 1101001 1101 1101001 1101001 111001 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

to, less, than, more

Anaphora

less, more