This is an analysis of Open Windows by Sara Teasdale.

Out of the window a sea of green trees
   Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc Xada beXe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1001001011 11111010010 1101111010010 111010 110101011 10111010 110101101 10101001010 11101001 1001010010 11110011 111010 11010001 10110101 11110001 11010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

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