Analysis of Leonora
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground,
And with cedar they have woven the four walls round.
Like a little dryad hiding she’ll be wrapped all in green,
Better kept and longer valued than by ways that would have been.
They will come with many roses in the early afternoon,
They will come with pinks and lilies and with Leonora soon;
And as long as beauty’s garments over beauty’s limbs are thrown,
There’ll be lilies that are liars, and the rose will have its own.
There will be a wondrous quiet in the house that they have made,
And to-night will be a darkness in the place where she’ll be laid;
But the builders, looking forward into time, could only see
Darker nights for Leonora than to-night shall ever be.
Scheme | AAXX BBCC DDEE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11110101110001 011011100111 1010110111101 101010101111111 11111010001001 11111010010101 0111110101111 111011100011111 111010100011111 011110100011111 101010100111101 10110101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 747 |
Words | 136 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 48 |
Words per line (avg) | 11 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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