This is an analysis of Spring Torrents by Sara Teasdale.

WILL it always be like this until I am dead,
Every spring must I bear it all again…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 001101001111 100011110101 001110010101 1011101 111101001010 10101010011 10111010010 1101011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8