Analysis of Hyla Brook
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
By June our brook's run out of song and speed.
Sought for much after that, it will be found
Either to have gone groping underground
(And taken with it all the Hyla breed
That shouted in the mist a month ago,
Like ghost of sleigh-bells in a ghost of snow)--
Or flourished and come up in jewel-weed,
Weak foliage that is blown upon and bent
Even against the way its waters went.
Its bed is left a faded paper sheet
Of dead leaves stuck together by the heat--
A brook to none but who remember long.
This as it will be seen is other far
Than with brooks taken otherwhere in song.
We love the things we love for what they are.
Scheme | ABBACCADDEEFGFG |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 11101111101 1111011111 101111010 010111011 1100010101 1111100111 1100110101 1101110101 1001011101 1111010101 1111010101 0111110101 1111111101 11110101 1101111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 483 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 122 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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