This is an analysis of The Solitary by Sara Teasdale.
My heart has grown rich with the passing of years,
I have less need now than when I was young…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc bdXd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111001000 1111111111 0111010010 1111001011 0010111111 01111101010 110110101 110111001 1011101111 1011111101 0011110001 111011010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
Repeated words/phrases
my, with, and, i, them
Anaphora
and, let
