Analysis of In a Disused Graveyard
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The living come with grassy tread
To read the gravestones on the hill;
The graveyard draws the living still,
But never anymore the dead.
The verses in it say and say:
"The ones who living come today
To read the stones and go away
Tomorrow dead will come to stay."
So sure of death the marbles rhyme,
Yet can't help marking all the time
How no one dead will seem to come.
What is it men are shrinking from?
It would be easy to be clever
And tell the stones: Men hate to die
And have stopped dying now forever.
I think they would believe the lie.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01011101 1101101 0110101 1100101 01001101 01110101 11010101 0111111 11110101 11110101 11111111 11111101 111101110 01011111 011101010 11110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 537 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 424 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 18, 2023
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