This is an analysis of When Love Goes by Sara Teasdale.
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O mother, I am sick of love,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Xbab aX X XaaX aX
- Stanza lengths: 1,4,2,1,4,2,
- Metre: 1 11011101 11011111 11011101 111101 100011111 111100010 1 10010001 10010001 10011111 01110100 11111101 1101010
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic tetrameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, where
Anaphora
where
