This is an analysis of Tides by Sara Teasdale.

Love in my heart was a fresh tide flowing
Where the starlike sea gulls soar;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab abaX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1011101110 1011111 0111101110 110101 1100101010 100111 10111010010 1101000
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8