Analysis of Recalled
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Long after there were none of them alive
About the place—where there is now no place
But a walled hole where fruitless vines embrace
Their parent skeletons that yet survive
In evil thorns—none of us could arrive
At a more cogent answer to their ways
Than one old Isaac in his latter days
Had humor or compassion to contrive.
I mentioned them, and Isaac shook his head:
“The Power that you call yours and I call mine
Extinguished in the last of them a line
That Satan would have disinherited.
When we are done with all but the Divine,
We die.” And there was no more to be said.
Scheme | ABBAACCA DEEDED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101011101 0101111111 1011110101 1101001101 0101111101 1011010111 1111001101 1101010101 1101010111 01011110111 0100011101 110111 1111111001 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 590 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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