Analysis of In White
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
A dented spider like a snow drop white
On a white Heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of lifeless satin cloth -
Saw ever curious eye so strange a sight? -
Portent in little, assorted death and blight
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth? -
The beady spider, the flower like a froth,
And the moth carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The blue prunella every child's delight.
What brought the kindred spider to that height?
(Make we no thesis of the miller's plight.)
What but design of darkness and of night?
Design, design! Do I use the word aright?
Scheme | ABBAABBA AAAAAA |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010111 1011110101 1011110101 11010011101 10010010101 10010010101 01010010101 0011010101 11110111101 01010100101 1101010111 1111010101 1101110011 0101111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 115 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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