This is an analysis of The Heart's House by Sara Teasdale.

My heart is but a little house
With room for only three or four,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabaXcdcbedeXdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 16,
  • Metre: 11010101 01110111 10110111 0101 11011101 11111111 10110111 1101 11110010 01010011 10110111 0001 11111111 11110101 11110111 1101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

i, you

Anaphora

i