Analysis of A Song To Eleonora Duse In "Francesca da Rimini "
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
Oh would I were the roses, that lie against her hands,
The heavy burning roses she touches as she stands!
Dear hands that hold the roses, where mine would love to be,
Oh leave, oh leave the roses, and hold the hands of me!
She draws the heart from out them, she draws away their breath,
Oh would that I might perish and find so sweet a death!
Scheme | AABBCC |
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Poetic Form | Sestain |
Metre | 1110010110101 0101010110111 1111010111111 1111010010111 1101111110111 1111110011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 6 |
Lines Amount | 6 |
Letters per line (avg) | 44 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 264 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 68 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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