Analysis of An Evangelist's Wife
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
“Why am I not myself these many days,
You ask? And have you nothing more to ask?
I do you wrong? I do not hear your praise
To God for giving you me to share your task?
“Jealous—of Her? Because her cheeks are pink,
And she has eyes? No, not if she had seven.
If you should only steal an hour to think,
Sometime, there might be less to be forgiven.
“No, you are never cruel. If once or twice
I found you so, I could applaud and sing.
Jealous of—What? You are not very wise.
Does not the good Book tell you anything?
“In David’s time poor Michal had to go.
Jealous of God? Well, if you like it so.”
Scheme | ABAB CDCD XEXE FF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111101 1101110111 1111111111 11110111111 1010010111 01111111110 11110111011 1111111010 11110101111 1111110101 1011111101 110111110 0101110111 1011111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 616 |
Words | 124 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 2 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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