Analysis of New England
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Here where the wind is always north-north-east
And children learn to walk on frozen toes,
Wonder begets an envy of all those
Who boil elsewhere with such a lyric yeast
Of love that you will hear them at a feast
Where demons would appeal for some repose,
Still clamoring where the chalice overflows
And crying wildest who have drunk the least.
Passion is here a soilure of the wits,
We're told, and Love a cross for them to bear;
Joy shivers in the corner where she knits
And Conscience always has the rocking-chair,
Cheerful as when she tortured into fits
The first cat that was ever killed by Care.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 110111111 0101111101 1001110111 111110101 1111111101 1101011101 1100101010 0101011101 101101101 1101011111 1100010111 010110101 1011110011 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 240 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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