Analysis of Sonnet
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Oh for a poet—for a beacon bright
To rift this changless glimmer of dead gray;
To spirit back the Muses, long astray,
And flush Parnassus with a newer light;
To put these little sonnet-men to flight
Who fashion, in a shrewd mechanic way,
Songs without souls, that flicker for a day,
To vanish in irrevocable night.
What does it mean, this barren age of ours?
Here are the men, the women, and the flowers,
The seasons, and the sunset, as before.
What does it mean? Shall there not one arise
To wrench one banner from the western skies,
And mark it with his name forevermore?
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCXDDB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 111110111 1101010101 011010101 1111010111 1100010101 1011110101 1100010001 11111101110 11010100010 010001101 1111111101 1111010101 0111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 581 |
Words | 107 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 224 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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