This is an analysis of While I May by Sara Teasdale.

Wind and hail and veering rain,
Driven mist that veils the day,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cbcb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 1111101 1011101 1011101 1111111 1111011 1111100 1000101 1010101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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