This is an analysis of The Wayfarer by Sara Teasdale.

Love entered in my heart one day,
A sad, unwelcome guest;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXc adad
  • Stanza lengths: 8,4,
  • Metre: 11001111 010101 11111111 111111 11110100 111101 11111101 110101 11111101 110111 10100111 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

my, with

Anaphora

and