This is an analysis of The Flight by Sara Teasdale.

Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow,
Lift me up in your love as a light wind lifts a swallow,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,5,
  • Metre: 1101011111010 11101110111010 11101011101 1101111110101 111111011101 111010011111 11101111101 1101111110111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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