Analysis of The Pasture
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I shan't be gone long. -- You come too.
| Scheme | xaaB xccB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101110101 1101110101 0111010111 111111111 1101110101 1101010111 111111101 111111111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 338 |
| Words | 70 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
| Words per line (avg) | 9 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 123 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 34 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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