Analysis of Inferential
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Although I saw before me there the face
Of one whom I had honored among men
The least, and on regarding him again
Would not have had him in another place,
He fitted with an unfamiliar grace
The coffin where I could not see him then
As I had seen him and appraised him when
I deemed him unessential to the race.
For there was more of him than what I saw.
And there was on me more than the old awe
That is the common genius of the dead.
I might as well have heard him: “Never mind;
If some of us were not so far behind,
The rest of us were not so far ahead.”
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111011101 1111110011 0101010101 1111100101 110110101 0101111111 1111100111 1111101 1111111111 0111111011 1101010101 1111111101 1111011101 0111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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