This is an analysis of Only In Sleep" by Sara Teasdale.
Only in sleep I see their faces,
Children I played with when I was a child,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbb XccX abXb
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 100111110 1011011101 0111001110 10010111 100110010 111100111 111111101 10111101001 00111011110 11111101 111101110 11011101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
i, with
