Analysis of The Telephone
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
'When I was just as far as I could walk From here today, There was an hour All still When leaning with my head again a flower I heard you talk. Don't say I didn't, for I heard you say-- You spoke from that flower on the window sill- Do you remember what it was you said?' 'First tell me what it was you thought you heard.' 'Having found the flower and driven a bee away, I leaned on my head And holding by the stalk, I listened and I thought I caught the word-- What was it? Did you call me by my name? Or did you say-- Someone said "Come" -- I heard it as I bowed.' 'I may have thought as much, but not aloud.' "Well, so I came.'
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111111110111110111101110101011111111011111111110101011101011111111111111110101001001011111101010111001111011111111111111111111111111111111011111 |
Characters | 642 |
Words | 139 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 1 |
Lines Amount | 1 |
Letters per line (avg) | 462 |
Words per line (avg) | 136 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 136 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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