Analysis of The Pilot
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
From the Past and Unavailing
Out of cloudland we are steering:
After groping, after fearing,
Into starlight we come trailing,
And we find the stars are true.
Still, O comrade, what of you?
You are gone, but we are sailing,
And the old ways are all new.
For the Lost and Unreturning
We have drifted, we have waited;
Uncommanded and unrated,
We have tossed and wandered, yearning
For a charm that comes no more
From the old lights by the shore:
We have shamed ourselves in learning
What you knew so long before.
For the Breed of the Far-going
Who are strangers, and all brothers,
May forget no more than others
Who looked seaward with eyes flowing.
But are brothers to bewail
One who fought so foul a gale?
You have won beyond our knowing,
You are gone, but yet we sail.
Scheme | AAAABBAB AXXACCAC ADDAEEAE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010010 1111110 10101010 0111110 0110111 111111 11111110 0011111 10101 11101110 10010 11101010 1011111 1011101 111001010 1111101 10110110 11100110 10111110 11101110 111011 1111101 111011010 1111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 772 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 201 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 47 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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