Analysis of The Sunken Crown
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Nothing will hold him longer—let him go;
Let him go down where others have gone down;
Little he cares whether we smile or frown,
Or if we know, or if we think we know.
The call is on him for his overthrow,
Say we; so let him rise, or let him drown.
Poor fool! He plunges for the sunken crown,
And we—we wait for what the plunge may show.
Well, we are safe enough. Why linger, then?
The watery chance was his, not ours. Poor fool!
Poor truant, poor Narcissus out of school;
Poor jest of Ascalon; poor king of men.—
The crown, if he be wearing it, may cool
His arrogance, and he may sleep again.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110111 1111110111 1011101111 1111111111 011111110 1111111111 1111010101 0111110111 1111011101 010011111011 1101010111 11111111 0111110111 1100011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 605 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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