Analysis of Reuben Bright
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did right),
I would not have you think that Reuben Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that night,
And made the women cry to see him cry.
And after she was dead, and he had paid
The singers and the sexton and the rest,
He packed a lot of things that she had made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs
In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111010011 1111010011 1111111101 1101011111 1111111111 1111011101 0110110111 0101011111 0101110111 0100010001 1101111111 11010111 1001111101 0110110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 233 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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