This is an analysis of Summer Night, Riverside by Sara Teasdale.

In the wild soft summer darkness
How many and many a night we two together…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbXbXacadXe X XacX Xed
  • Stanza lengths: 12,1,4,3,
  • Metre: 00111010 1101100111010 100111010 100111010 101110 010101011 11001010111 1101011101 101 11101010 1010 10011 01111101001 1111 001010 0101000101 1111 0111 100010101001 011010001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 20