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
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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Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech. more…

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