This is an analysis of Nahant by Sara Teasdale.

BOWED as an elm under the weight of its beauty,
So earth is bowed, under her weight of splendor,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXccddbcXXa
  • Stanza lengths: 12,
  • Metre: 111110010010 11011001010 10110011010 10110 10011001011 110010101010 10011110011 10010 10100111010 11011101110 010101010011 10010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 12

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