This is an analysis of Lights by Sara Teasdale.
When we come home at night and close the door,
Standing together in the shadowy room,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abba cddc ecdedX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,6,
- Metre: 1111111101 10010001001 1011110101 1001011111 10110101010 1011000101 10011100101 01011101010 1111010101 0101010100 1101010101 1011011101 1001011101 1111010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and
Anaphora
glad
