This is an analysis of May Day by Sara Teasdale.
The shining line of motors,
The swaying motor-bus,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd XXaX ceXe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101010 010101 0101010 110111 0111010 011101 0101010 111111 101111110 10111110 100010110 0101110 1101110 111101 0101010 110001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
you, i, love, and
Anaphora
the
