Analysis of The Need of Being Versed in Country Things
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The house had gone to bring again
To the midnight sky a sunset glow.
Now the chimney was all of the house that stood,
Like a pistil after the petals go.
The barn opposed across the way,
That would have joined the house in flame
Had it been the will of the wind, was left
To bear forsaken the place's name.
No more it opened with all one end
For teams that came by the stony road
To drum on the floor with scurrying hoofs
And brush the mow with the summer load.
The birds that came to it through the air
At broken windows flew out and in,
Their murmur more like the sigh we sigh
From too much dwelling on what has been.
Yet for them the lilac renewed its leaf,
And the aged elm, though touched with fire;
And the dry pump flung up an awkward arm;
And the fence post carried a strand of wire.
For them there was really nothing sad.
But though they rejoiced in the nest they kept,
One had to be versed in country things
Not to believe the phoebes wept.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XDXD XEXE XFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01111101 1011011 10101110111 1010100101 01010101 11110101 1110110111 110100101 111101111 111110101 1110111001 010110101 011111101 110101100 110110111 111101111 111010111 001111110 0011111101 00111001110 111110101 1110100111 111110101 1101011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 956 |
Words | 191 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 124 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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