Analysis of For a Dead Lady
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
No more with overflowing light
Shall fill the eyes that now are faded,
Nor shall another's fringe with night
Their woman-hidden world as they did.
No more shall quiver down the days
The flowing wonder of her ways,
Whereof no language may requite
The shifting and the many-shaded.
The grace, divine, definitive,
Clings only as a faint forestalling;
The laugh that love could not forgive
Is hushed, and answers to no calling;
The forehead and the little ears
Have gone where Saturn keeps the years;
The breast where roses could not live
Has done with rising and with falling.
The beauty, shattered by the laws
That have creation in their keeping,
No longer trembles at applause,
Or over children that are sleeping;
And we who delve in beauty's lore
Know all that we have known before
Of what inexorable cause
Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.
Scheme | AXAB CCAB DEDEFFXE GEGEHHXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111001 110111110 11010111 110101111 11110101 01010101 111011 010001010 01010100 11010110 01111101 110101110 01000101 11110101 01110111 111100110 01010101 110100110 1101101 110101110 0111011 11111101 1110001 111100110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 849 |
Words | 149 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8, 8 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 169 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 04, 2023
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