This is an analysis of The Lights Of New York by Sara Teasdale.

The lightning spun your garment for the night
Of silver filaments with fire shot thru,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdee
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0101110101 01010001011 0100011111 0111000101 0111000101 1001010111 1111110111 1101010111 0100010101 0101010111 0100000111 01101010101 1111011101 01011011111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the