Analysis of The Dark Hills
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Dark hills at evening in the west,
Where sunset hovers like a sound
Of golden horns that sang to rest
Old bones of warriors under ground,
Far now from all the bannered ways
Where flash the legions of the sun,
You fade--as if the last of days
Were fading, and all wars were done.
Scheme | ABABCDCD |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11110001 1110101 11011111 111100101 1111011 11010101 11110111 01001101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 286 |
Words | 56 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 218 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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