This is an analysis of Spring Night by Sara Teasdale.

The park is filled with night and fog,
The veils are drawn about the world,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabX Xcbc ddddEFbbaaggbXEF
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,16,
  • Metre: 01010111 01110101 01010101 11110 11100101 11100101 01011101 1011 10011000 10010101 11110111 11010101 11011101 11110101 01010111 01110001 1111111 1110101 1110101 1010101 1111101 10100101 11011101 11110101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anaphora

the, gold, why