Analysis of Meeting And Passing
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
As I went down the hill along the wall
There was a gate I had leaned at for the view
And had just turned from when I first saw you
As you came up the hill. We met. But all
We did that day was mingle great and small
Footprints in summer dust as if we drew
The figure of our being less that two
But more than one as yet. Your parasol
Pointed the decimal off with one deep thrust.
And all the time we talked you seemed to see
Something down there to smile at in the dust.
(Oh, it was without prejudice to me!)
Afterward I went past what you had passed
Before we met and you what I had passed.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111010101 11011111101 0111111111 1111011111 1111110101 101011111 01011010111 11111111 10010011111 0101111111 1011111001 1110110011 1001111111 0111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 127 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 456 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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