Analysis of Two Quatrains
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
As eons of incalculable strife
Are in the vision of one moment caught,
So are the common, concrete things of life
Divinely shadowed on the walls of Thought.
We shriek to live, but no man ever lives
Till he has rid the ghost of human breath;
We dream to die, but no man ever dies
Till he has quit the road that runs to death.
Scheme | AXAX XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1101010001 1001011101 1101001111 0101010111 1111111101 1111011101 1111111101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 334 |
Words | 69 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 127 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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