Analysis of The Span Of Life
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
The old dog barks backwards without getting up.
I can remember when he was a pup.
Scheme | AA |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Couplet |
Metre | 01111001101 1101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 109 |
Words | 20 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 2 |
Lines Amount | 2 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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