Analysis of Bond And Free
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Love has earth to which she clings
With hills and circling arms about--
Wall within wall to shut fear out.
But Thought has need of no such things,
For Thought has a pair of dauntless wings.
On snow and sand and turn, I see
Where Love has left a printed trace
With straining in the world's embrace.
And such is Love and glad to be
But Thought has shaken his ankles free.
Thought cleaves the interstellar gloom
And sits in Sirius' disc all night,
Till day makes him retrace his flight
With smell of burning on every plume,
Back past the sun to an earthly room.
His gains in heaven are what they are.
Yet some say Love by being thrall
And simply staying possesses all
In several beauty that Thought fares far
To find fused in another star.
Scheme | ABBAA CDDCC EFFEE GHHGG |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1111111 110100101 10111111 11111111 11101111 11010111 11110101 11000101 01110111 111101101 1100101 0101111 11110111 1111011001 110111101 110101111 11111101 010100101 010101111 11100101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 725 |
Words | 141 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 5, 5, 5 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 146 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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