Analysis of The Flower Boat
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The fisherman's swapping a yarn for a yarn
Under the hand of the village barber,
And her in the angle of house and barn
His deep-sea dory has found a harbor.
At anchor she rides the sunny sod
As full to the gunnel of flowers growing
As ever she turned her home with cod
From George's bank when winds were blowing.
And I judge from that elysian freight
That all they ask is rougher weather,
And dory and master will sail by fate
To seek the Happy Isles together.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EBEB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01001001101 1001101010 0000101101 1111011010 110110101 1110111010 110110111 110111010 0111111 111111010 0100101111 110101010 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 458 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 122 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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