This is an analysis of The Garden by Sara Teasdale.

MY heart is a garden tired with autumn,
Heaped with bending asters and dahlias heavy and dark,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbbb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 11001010010 1010101101011 00101101001010 01011011111101 101100011010 11010101001 010001010101010 10010001101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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