Analysis of Storm Fear
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
When the wind works against us in the dark,
And pelts with snow
The lowest chamber window on the east,
And whispers with a sort of stifled bark,
The beast,
'Come out! Come out!'-
It costs no inward struggle not to go,
Ah, no!
I count our strength,
Two and a child,
Those of us not asleep subdued to mark
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length,-
How drifts are piled,
Dooryard and road ungraded,
Till even the comforting barn grows far away
And my heart owns a doubt
Whether 'tis in us to arise with day
And save ourselves unaided.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011011001 0111 0101010101 0101011101 01 1111 1111010111 11 11101 1001 1111010111 10111010111 1111 1011 110010011101 011101 1010110111 01001010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 546 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 415 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 104 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 21, 2023
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