Analysis of Into My Own
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
One of my wishes is that those dark trees,
So old and firm they scarcely show the breeze,
Were not, as 'twere, the merest mask of gloom,
But stretched away unto the edge of doom.
I should not be withheld but that some day
into their vastness I should steal away,
Fearless of ever finding open land,
or highway where the slow wheel pours the sand.
I do not see why I should e'er turn back,
Or those should not set forth upon my track
To overtake me, who should miss me here
And long to know if still I held them dear.
They would not find me changed from him they knew--
Only more sure of all I though was true.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 1101110101 0111010111 1101100111 1111011111 0111011101 1011010101 111011101 11111111011 1111110111 110111111 0111111111 1111111111 1011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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