This is an analysis of Places by Sara Teasdale.

PLACES I love come back to me like music,
Hush me and heal me when I am very tired;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcbXbXdXdedcfXfdfaXXgeg
  • Stanza lengths: 24,
  • Metre: 10111101110 111111111010 1101111010 0010101011010 1111010010010 110110011010 110110101110 01111001110111 011010001010 101110000111 110101011101011 00101101111001 10010111010 010101011011 0110101101 001001010111 011110011010 1100101101 10111101110 11011011100 0011100101010 010101010111 1111011101010 11101101011001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

me, i, and