This is an analysis of Sappho Iii by Sara Teasdale.
The twilight's inner flame grows blue and deep,
And in my Lesbos, over leagues of sea,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XabcdefgXfdabaebehgdeijceihXbdgciijeadddaedXeaekcbkdadakkg
- Stanza lengths: 58,
- Metre: 0101011111 1011010101 0101011001 1111010101 1111110101 1101110111 1111011111 0101010101 1110010101 1101010111 11100010101 1100010101 1100010101 1111010101 1111110101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010011 1101001111 0111010011 0011111111 0101010001 1001010101 1111011101 111111111 1101010111 1101110111 110101101110 0100010101 1111011101 010101101 0101111001 1100011101 01010101001 1111010101 0101010011 1101011101 0110011111 0101010101 111111111 11010110101 1110110011 1101111101 1101111000 010101011011 0101011101 1111010111 101100101 010001111 1111001111 1101011101 1111011111 1111011101 1101111111 1111110101 11111101001 1101110101 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 58
Repeated words/phrases
my, i, no, that
Anaphora
beyond, no, ah, i
