Analysis of The Secret Sits
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
Scheme | AA |
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Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 111001001 10101001001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 89 |
Words | 19 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 17 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 04, 2023
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