Analysis of They Were Welcome To Their Belief
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Grief may have thought it was grief.
Care may have thought it was care.
They were welcome to their belief,
The overimportant pair.
No, it took all the snows that clung
To the low roof over his bed,
Beginning when he was young,
To induce the one snow on his head.
But whenever the roof camme white
The head in the dark below
Was a shade less the color of night,
A shade more the color of snow.
Grief may have thought it was grief.
Care may have thought it was care.
But neither one was the thief
Of his raven color of hair.
Scheme | ABab cdcd efef ABab |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1111111 1111111 10101101 011 11110111 10111011 0101111 101011111 10100111 0100101 101101011 01101011 1111111 1111111 1101101 11101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 515 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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