Analysis of Bewick Finzer
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Time was when his half million drew
The breath of six per cent;
But soon the worm of what-was-not
Fed hard on his content;
And something crumbled in his brain
When his half million went.
Time passed, and filled along with his
The place of many more;
Time came, and hardly one of us
Had credence to restore,
From what appeared one day, the man
Whom we had known before.
The broken voice, the withered neck,
The coat worn out with care,
The cleanliness of indigence,
The brilliance of despair,
The fond imponderable dreams
Of affluence,--all were there.
Poor Finzer, with his dreams and schemes,
Fares hard now in the race,
With heart and eye that have a task
When he looks in the eye
Of one who might so easily
Have been in Finzer's place.
He comes unfailing for the loan
We give and then forget;
He comes, and probably for years
Will he be coming yet,--
Familiar as an old mistake,
And futile as regret.
Scheme | XAXAXA BCXCXC XDBDED EFXXXF XGXGXG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (33%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11111101 011111 11011111 111110 01010011 111101 11010111 011101 11010111 110101 11011101 111101 01010101 011111 010011 010101 01010001 1100101 1111101 111001 11011101 111001 11111100 11011 11010101 110101 11010011 111101 01011101 010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 911 |
Words | 171 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 30 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 141 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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