Analysis of But outer Space
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
But outer Space,
At least this far,
For all the fuss
Of the populace
Stays more popular
Than populous
| Scheme | ABCCDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1111 1101 10100 11100 1100 |
| Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
| Characters | 104 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 14 |
| Words per line (avg) | 3 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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