This is an analysis of Sleepless by Sara Teasdale.
If I could have your arms tonight-
But half the world and the broken sea…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaa bcbc Xcc X
- Stanza lengths: 3,4,3,1,
- Metre: 01111101 110110101 101111 010101010011 1011010101 0101010010011 11101 0101010101 1111011101 110101 010110
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
