This is an analysis of Love-Free by Sara Teasdale.
I am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn,
Swift and intent, asking no joy from another,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXX bbaX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 111011011010010 110110110010 100110010010 10111 11101111001010 1010101111110 110111011010 11110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
of, i, should
Anaphora
i
