Analysis of Fragment
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Faint white pillars that seem to fade
As you look from here are the first one sees
Of his house where it hides and dies in a shade
Of beeches and oaks and hickory trees.
Now many a man, given woods like these,
And a house like that, and the Briony gold,
Would have said, "There are still some gods to please,
And houses are built without hands, we're told.
There are the pillars, and all gone gray.
Briony's hair went white. You may see
Where the garden was if you come this way.
That sun-dial scared him, he said to me;
"Sooner or later they strike," said he,
But he knew too much for the life he led.
And who knows all knows everything
That a patient ghost at last retrieves;
There's more to be known of his harvesting
When Time the thresher unbinds the sheaves;
And there's more to be heard than a wind that grieves
For Briony now in this ageless oak,
Driving the first of its withered leaves
Over the stones where the fountain broke.
Scheme | ABABBCBC DEDEEX FGFGGHGH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11101111 1111110111 11111101001 110101001 1100110111 001110011 1111111111 0101101111 110100111 1111111 1010111111 1110111111 101101111 1111110111 0111110 101011101 1111111100 11010101 01111110111 11101101 100111101 100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 943 |
Words | 182 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6, 8 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 243 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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