Analysis of The New Tenants
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
The day was here when it was his to know
How fared the barriers he had built between
His triumph and his enemies unseen,
For them to undermine and overthrow;
And it was his no longer to forego
The sight of them, insidious and serene,
Where they were delving always and had been
Left always to be vicious and to grow.
And there were the new tenants who had come,
By doors that were left open unawares,
Into his house, and were so much at home
There now that he would hardly have to guess,
By the slow guile of their vindictiveness,
What ultimate insolence would soon be theirs.
Scheme | ABBAABXA XCXXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0111111111 11010011101 1100110001 11110010 0111110101 01110100001 110101011 111110011 0100110111 111011001 0111001111 1111110111 1011110100 11001001111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 229 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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