Analysis of Wild Asters
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
In the spring I asked the daisies
If his words were true,
And the clever, clear-eyed daisies
Always knew.
Now the fields are brown and barren,
Bitter autumn blows,
And of all the stupid asters
Not one knows.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 00111010 11101 00101110 11 10111010 10101 01101010 111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 212 |
Words | 40 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 82 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 12, 2023
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