This is an analysis of What Do I Care? by Sara Teasdale.
What do I care, in the dreams and the languor of spring,
That my songs do not show me at all?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa XbXb X
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,1,
- Metre: 11110011010001 111111111 111010111011010 11110111001 1111111001011 1111011111101 1110111010010 0011111111 010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 10
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, my
