Analysis of A Question
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
A voice said, Look me in the stars
And tell me truly, men of earth,
If all the soul-and-body scars
Were not too much to pay for birth.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 01111001 01110111 11010101 01111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 139 |
| Words | 30 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 101 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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