Analysis of Night Song at Amalfi
Sara Teasdale 1884 (St. Louis) – 1933 (New York City)
I asked the heaven of stars
What I should give my love --
It answered me with silence,
Silence above.
I asked the darkened sea
Down where the fishers go --
It answered me with silence,
Silence below.
Oh, I could give him weeping,
Or I could give him song --
But how can I give silence,
My whole life long?
Scheme | xaBa xcBc xdbd |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101011 111111 1101110 1001 110101 110101 1101110 1001 1111110 111111 1111110 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 308 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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