Analysis of Design
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth --
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches' broth --
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.
What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.
Scheme | ABBAABBA ACAACC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101010101 1011110101 1011110101 0101001101 1101010101 10010010101 01110010101 0111010101 11110111101 011010011 1101010111 110111001 1101110101 1011000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 588 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 231 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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