This is an analysis of Over The Roofs by Sara Teasdale.
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Oh chimes set high on the sunny tower…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bXbba cdeed X aaaa afaf X gcdc Xhah X gXiX eaXa iagX
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,5,1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1 1111101010 11111000 1101001010 110101010 01110101 11110110 11111101 11111101 11010101 100101 1 111100111 1100101111 110100101 10111111 11010111 1101100101 11011101 11010111 1 01110101 01010001 10010101 10110101 01111101 11110111 11011111 11010001 1 11101111 1111101 111101 11011100 1100111 011101 10111001 1010101 1111001 111101 101110111 0111110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 42
Repeated words/phrases
on, oh
Anaphora
oh, the
