Analysis of Once by the Pacific
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The shattered water made a misty din.
Great waves looked over others coming in,
And thought of doing something to the shore
That water never did to land before.
The clouds were low and hairy in the skies,
Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes.
You could not tell, and yet it looked as if
The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff,
The cliff in being backed by continent;
It looked as if a night of dark intent
Was coming, and not only a night, an age.
Someone had better be prepared for rage.
There would be more than ocean-water broken
Before God's last Put out the light was spoken.
Scheme | AABBCCDDEFGGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0101010101 1111010100 0111010101 1101011101 0101010001 1111000111 1111011111 01110010111 0101011100 1111011101 11001100111 111010111 11111101010 01111101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 467 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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