Analysis of Fragmentary Blue
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Why make so much of fragmentary blue
In here and there a bird, or butterfly,
Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye,
When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heaven (as yet)--
Though some savants make earth include the sky;
And blue so far above us comes so high,
It only gives our wish for blue a whet.
Scheme | ABBA CBBC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111111001 010101110 11011011101 11010010101 11110111011 1110110101 0111011111 11011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 346 |
Words | 67 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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