This is an analysis of The Ghost by Sara Teasdale.
I went back to the clanging city,
I went back where my old loves stayed,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ABab acdc ebXb dfef ABab X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,1,
- Metre: 111001010 11111111 11111011110 110101101 111111110 11011101 11100101010 011101101 1101011110 0100111001 101101011 0110001111 111101010 11110101 1111101010 110110100 111001010 11111111 1111011110 111010001 010110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
my, love, that
Anaphora
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