Analysis of Love And A Question
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
A stranger came to the door at eve,
And he spoke the bridegroom fair.
He bore a green-white stick in his hand,
And, for all burden, care.
He asked with the eyes more than the lips
For a shelter for the night,
And he turned and looked at the road afar
Without a window light.
The bridegroom came forth into the porch
With, 'Let us look at the sky,
And question what of the night to be,
Stranger, you and I.'
The woodbine leaves littered the yard,
The woodbine berries were blue,
Autumn, yes, winter was in the wind;
'Stranger, I wish I knew.'
Within, the bride in the dusk alone
Bent over the open fire,
Her face rose-red with the glowing coal
And the thought of the heart's desire.
The bridegroom looked at the weary road,
Yet saw but her within,
And wished her heart in a case of gold
And pinned with a silver pin.
The bridegroom thought it little to give
A dole of bread, a purse,
A heartfelt prayer for the poor of God,
Or for the rich a curse;
But whether or not a man was asked
To mar the love of two
By harboring woe in the bridal house,
The bridegroom wished he knew.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010110111 011011 110111011 011101 111011101 1010101 0110110101 010101 01110101 1111101 010110111 10101 0111001 011001 101101001 101111 010100101 11001010 011110101 001101010 01110101 111001 010100111 0110101 01111011 011101 01110111 110101 110110111 110111 1100100101 01111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,051 |
Words | 214 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 32 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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