This is an analysis of Pierrot by Sara Teasdale.

Pierrot stands in the garden
Beneath a waning moon,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXa Abab AXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1010010 010101 1101110 010101 1010010 111111 1111010 100101 1010010 110101 1101010 11110
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

pierrot