Analysis of Summer Night, Riverside
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
In the wild, soft summer darkness
How many and many a night we two together
Sat in the park and watched the Hudson
Wearing her lights like golden spangles
Glinting on black satin.
The rail along the curving pathway
Was low in a happy place to let us cross,
And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom
Sheltered us,
While your kisses and the flowers,
Falling, falling,
Tangled my hair. . . .
The frail white stars moved slowly over the sky.
And now, far off
In the fragrant darkness
The tree is tremulous again with bloom,
For June comes back.
To-night what girl
Dreamily before her mirror shakes from her hair
This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils?
Scheme | AXBABXXCAXXD X XACX XDX |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (35%) Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 00111010 1100100111010 100101010 10011101 101110 01010101 11001011111 0101011111 101 11100010 1010 1011 01111101001 0111 001010 0111000111 1111 1111 1010101101 111010011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 648 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 12, 1, 4, 3 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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