Analysis of The Wise Brothers
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
So long adrift, so fast aground,
What foam and ruin have we found—
We, the Wise Brothers?
Could heaven and earth be framed amiss,
That we should land in fine like this—
We, and no others?
Convoyed by what accursèd thing
Made we this evil reckoning—
We, the Wise Brothers?
And if the failure be complete,
Why look we forward from defeat—
We, and what others?
Blown far from harbors once in sight,
May we not, going far, go right,—
We, the Wise Brothers?
Companioned by the whirling spheres,
Have we no more than what appears—
We, and all others?
Scheme | aaBccb ddBeeb ffBggb |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101 11010111 10110 110011101 11110111 10110 111111 11110100 10110 01010101 11110101 10110 11110101 11110111 10110 110101 11111101 10110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 597 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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