Analysis of The Oft-Repeated Dream
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
She had no saying dark enough
For the dark pine that kept
Forever trying the window latch
Of the room where they slept.
The tireless but ineffectual hands
That with every futile pass
Made the great tree seem as a little bird
Before the mystery of glass!
It never had been inside the room,
And only one of the two
Was afraid in an oft-repeated dream
Of what the tree might do.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11110101 101111 010100101 101111 0100101001 11100101 1011110101 01010011 110110101 0101101 1010110101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 372 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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