Analysis of Devotion
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to ocean -
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
| Scheme | AAAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain Rubaiyat |
| Metre | 011111010 101101110 100111010 10110010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 142 |
| Words | 26 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 24 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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