Analysis of Boston
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
My northern pines are good enough for me,
But there’s a town my memory uprears—
A town that always like a friend appears,
And always in the sunrise by the sea.
And over it, somehow, there seems to be
A downward flash of something new and fierce,
That ever strives to clear, but never clears
The dimness of a charmed antiquity.
Scheme | ABBAABBA |
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Poetic Form | Octave |
Metre | 1101110111 110111001 011110101 01001101 010111111 0101110101 1101111101 011010100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 337 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 256 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 61 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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