This is an analysis of The Lamp by Sara Teasdale.
If I can bear your love like a lamp before me,
When I go down the long steep Road of Darkness,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXX XXab
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 011111101011 11110111010 11110101011 11010 01111111111 01111111110 10111111011 01010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
i, find
Anaphora
if
