Analysis of Momus
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
"Where's the need of singing now?"--
Smooth your brow,
Momus, and be reconciled.
For king Kronos is a child--
Child and father,
Or god rather,
And all gods are wild.
"Who reads Byron any more?"--
Shut the door
Momus, for I feel a draught;
Shut it quick, for some one laughed.--
What's become of
Browning? Some of
Wordsworth lumbers like a raft?
"What are poets to find here?"--
Have no fear:
When the stars are shining blue
There will yet be left a few
Themes availing--
And these failing,
Momus, there'll be you.
Scheme | AABBCCB DDEEFFE XXGGHHG |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011101 111 10110 1110101 1010 1110 01111 1110101 101 111101 1111111 1011 1011 101101 1110111 111 1011101 1111101 11 0110 11011 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 519 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 7, 7 |
Lines Amount | 21 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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