Analysis of Revelation
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
We make ourselves a place apart
Behind light words that tease and flout,
But oh, the agitated heart
Till someone find us really out.
'Tis pity if the case require
(Or so we say) that in the end
We speak the literal to inspire
The understanding of a friend.
But so with all, from babes that play
At hide-and-seek to God afar,
So all who hide too well away
Must speak and tell us where they are.
Scheme | ABAB XCXC DEDE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 110010101 01111101 1101001 1111101 11010110 11111001 110100101 0010101 11111111 11011101 11111101 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 390 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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