This is an analysis of On A March Day by Sara Teasdale.

Here in the teeth of this triumphant wind
That shakes the naked shadows on the ground,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa XaXa abab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001000101 1101011101 1001100101 010011101011 1101111111 1111111111 111100101 1101001101 1101110111 110010111001 1111011111 0101010001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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