Analysis of A Boundless Moment
Robert Lee Frost 1874 (San Francisco, California) – 1963 ( Boston, Massachusetts)
He halted in the wind, and, what was that
Far in the maples, pale, but not a ghost?
He stood there bringing March against his thought,
And yet too ready to believe the most.
'Oh, that's the Paradise-in-bloom,' I said;
And truly it was fair enough for flowers
had we but in us to assume in march
Such white luxuriance of May for ours.
We stood a moment so in a strange world,
Myself as one his own pretense deceives;
And then I said the truth (and we moved on).
A young beech clinging to its last year's leaves.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB XBXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1100010111 1001011101 1111010111 0111010101 110100111 01011101110 1110110101 11111110 1101010011 11111011 0111010111 0111011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 507 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 6 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on April 07, 2023
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