Analysis of Lost Anchors
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Like a dry fish flung inland far from shore,
There lived a sailor, warped and ocean-browned,
Who told of an old vessel, harbor-drowned,
And out of mind a century before,
Where divers, on descending to explore
A legend that had lived its way around
The world of ships, in the dark hulk had found
Anchors, which had been seized and seen no more.
Improving a dry leiure to invest
Their misadventure with a manifest
Analogy that he may read who runs,
The sailor made it old as ocean grass--
Telling of much that once had come to pass
With him, whose mother should have had no sons.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CCDEED |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 101111111 1101010101 1111110101 0111010001 1101010101 0101111101 0111001111 1011110111 010011101 100101010 0100111111 0101111101 1011111111 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 584 |
Words | 109 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 227 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 54 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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