Analysis of Desert Places
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it - it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less -
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
WIth no expression, nothing to express.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
Scheme | AABA CCXC XDBD EXXE |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 1100110111 0011101101 001110101 1011010101 0101111111 1100110011 1111010011 010001101 0101111100 1111011111 011010101 1101010101 11011111010 01111111011 1110111101 1111111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 654 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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