Analysis of Unharvested
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
A scent of ripeness from over a wall.
And come to leave the routine road
And look for what had made me stall,
There sure enough was an apple tree
That had eased itself of its summer load,
And of all but its trivial foliage free,
Now breathed as light as a lady's fan.
For there had been an apple fall
As complete as the apple had given man.
The ground was one circle of solid red.
May something go always unharvested!
May much stay out of our stated plan,
Apples or something forgotten and left,
So smelling their sweetness would be no theft.
Scheme | ABACBCDADX BDEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111001 01110011 01111111 110111101 1110111101 01111100101 111110101 11111101 10110101101 0111101101 110111 1111110101 1011001001 1101101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 547 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 4 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 214 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 52 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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