Analysis of A Dream Pang
Robert Lee Frost 1874 (San Francisco, California) – 1963 ( Boston, Massachusetts)
I had withdrawn in forest, and my song
Was swallowed up in leaves that blew alway;
And to the forest edge you came one day
(This was my dream) and looked and pondered long,
But did not enter, though the wish was strong:
you shook your pensive head as who should say,
'I dare not, to far in his footsteps stray-
He must seek me would he undo the wrong.'
Not far, but near, I stood and saw it all
behind low boughs the trees let down outside;
And the sweet pang it cost me not to call
And tell you that I saw does still abide.
But 'tis not true that thus I dwelt aloof,
For the wood wakes, and you are here for proof.
| Scheme | AXBAABBA CDCDEE |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010011 110101111 0101011111 1111010101 1111010111 1111011111 111110111 1111110101 1111110111 0111011111 0011111111 0111111101 1111111101 1011011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 605 |
| Words | 128 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 235 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 05, 2023
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