This is an analysis of The Gift by Sara Teasdale.
What can I give you, my lord, my lover,
You who have given the world to me,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdabab
- Stanza lengths: 12,
- Metre: 1111111110 111100101 1101101110 011110101 1111110110 01100111101 11111001110 010101111 1111111110 01110101 11101111010 111111111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
would, i, you, my
Anaphora
i
