This is an analysis of The River by Sara Teasdale.

I came from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab XXaX XbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11001010 1110101 111001010 111101 11110010 110111 111001010 1111110 10101111 1011101 111111011 110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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