Analysis of How Annandale Went Out
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
“They called it Annandale—and I was there
To flourish, to find words, and to attend:
Liar, physician, hypocrite, and friend,
I watched him; and the sight was not so fair
As one or two that I have seen elsewhere:
An apparatus not for me to mend—
A wreck, with hell between him and the end,
Remained of Annandale; and I was there.
“I knew the ruin as I knew the man;
So put the two together, if you can,
Remembering the worst you know of me.
Now view yourself as I was, on the spot—
With a slight kind of engine. Do you see?
Like this … You wouldn’t hang me? I thought not.”
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCDEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100111 1101110101 100101001 1110011111 111111111 101011111 0111011001 011100111 1101011101 1101010111 0100011111 1101111101 1011110111 111111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 594 |
Words | 117 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 215 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 57 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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