This is an analysis of The Blind by Sara Teasdale.

The birds are all a-building,
They say the world's a-flower,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb cdXd aeae Xfaf ceXe
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0111010 1101010 1111010 0101010 1101010 011101 1111011 110101 1101010 111111 1111010 110101 1001111 110101 1101010 111101 01110111 111111 01110111 100101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

of, i, and

Anaphora

i, and