This is an analysis of When Love Was Born by Sara Teasdale.

When Love was born I think he lay
Right warm on Venus' breast,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab bXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111 111101 11111111 111101 11110101 010101 10011101 100100
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

whiles, and

Anaphora

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