Analysis of Range-Finding
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung
And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest
Before it stained a single human breast.
The stricken flower bent double and so hung.
And still the bird revisited her young.
A butterfly its fall had dispossessed
A moment sought in air his flower of rest,
Then lightly stooped to it and fluttering clung.
On the bare upland pasture there had spread
O'ernight 'twixt mullein stalks a wheel of thread
And straining cables wet with silver dew.
A sudden passing bullet shook it dry.
The indwelling spider ran to greet the fly,
But finding nothing, sullenly withdrew.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 010101101 01010010111 0111010101 01010110011 0101010001 01011101 01010111011 11011101001 1011010111 11110111 0101011101 0101010111 011011101 11010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 105 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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