This is an analysis of The Wind by Sara Teasdale.

A wind is blowing over my soul,
I hear it cry the whole night thro' --…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXab Xbab
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 010101011 11010111 01111111 0101 01011111 10110101 10111111 1001
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8