This is an analysis of Sunset: St. Louis by Sara Teasdale.
HUSHED in the smoky haze of summer sunset,
When I came home again from far-off places,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdXbXbbXbcdaba
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 10010101011 11110101110 11011111010 11010 111100101010 01011111010 10011101010 11110 010111010110 10010101010 11110111011 01010 11000111010 10010101010 1110101110 10011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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