Analysis of Three Quatrains
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
As long as Fame's imperious music rings
Will poets mock it with crowned words august;
And haggard men will clamber to be kings
As long as Glory weighs itself in dust.
Drink to the splendor of the unfulfilled,
Nor shudder for the revels that are done:
The wines that flushed Lucullus are all spilled,
The strings that Nero fingered are all gone.
We cannot crown ourselves with everything,
Nor can we coax the Fates for us to quarrel:
No matter what we are, or what we sing,
Time finds a withered leaf in every laurel.
Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110100101 1101111110 0101110111 1111010101 110101001 1101010111 01111111 0111010111 1101001110 11110111110 1101111111 110101010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 530 |
Words | 100 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 137 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 06, 2023
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