This is an analysis of The River by Sara Teasdale.
I came from the sunny valleys
And sought for the open sea,…
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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