Analysis of Come In
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
As I came to the edge of the woods,
Thrush music -- hark!
Now if it was dusk outside,
Inside it was dark.
Too dark in the woods for a bird
By sleight of wing
To better its perch for the night,
Though it still could sing.
The last of the light of the sun
That had died in the west
Still lived for one song more
In a thrush's breast.
Far in the pillared dark
Thrush music went --
Almost like a call to come in
To the dark and lament.
But no, I was out for stars;
I would not come in.
I meant not even if asked;
And I hadn't been.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC ADED XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111101101 1101 1111111 01111 11001101 1111 11011101 11111 01101101 111001 111111 0011 100101 1101 1101110 101001 1111111 11110 1111011 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 535 |
Words | 116 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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