This is an analysis of Message by Sara Teasdale.
I heard a cry in the night,
A thousand miles it came,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 1101001 0101001 110101 1111 011111 1101111 111101 1111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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