Analysis of Stars
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
How countlessly they congregate
O'er our tumultuous snow,
Which flows in shapes as tall as trees
When wintry winds do blow!--
As if with keenness for our fate,
Our faltering few steps on
To white rest, and a place of rest
Invisible at dawn,--
And yet with neither love nor hate,
Those stars like some snow-white
Minerva's snow-white marble eyes
Without the gift of sight.
| Scheme | ABXB AXXX ACXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 11110 10101001 11011111 110111 11111101 10100111 11100111 010011 01110111 111111 111101 010111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 368 |
| Words | 69 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 97 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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