This is an analysis of Swallow Flight by Sara Teasdale.

I love my hour of wind and light,
I love men's faces and their eyes,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,
  • Metre: 111100111 11110111 11110101 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 4

Repeated words/phrases

love, i

Anaphora

i