Lyric Poem · Love
The Look
by Sara Teasdale · 1915
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Look
- Poet
- Sara Teasdale
- Published
- 1915
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Love, Funny, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- Line length
- Lines run 5-8 syllables (median 7). No single length dominates, which is normal once elision and contraction are in play.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
Full-text display is based on the cited edition and a United States term-expiry review.
- Author record
- Sara Teasdale1884–1933
- Source record
- WikisourceThe Look by sara-teasdale, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1915
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 ec83b0c1a0938cae…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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