Analysis of A Song at Shannon's
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Two men came out of Shannon's, having known
The faces of each other for so long
As they had listened there to an old song,
Sung thinly in a wastrel monotone
By some unhappy night-bird, who had flown
Too many times and with a wing too strong
To save himself; and so done heavy wrong
To more frail elements than his alone.
Slowly away they went, leaving behind
More light than was before them. Neither met
The other's eyes again or said a word.
Each to his loneliness or to his kind,
Went his own way, and with his own regret,
Not knowing what the other may have heard.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDECDE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 1111110101 0101110111 1111011111 11000110 1101011111 1101010111 1101011101 1111001101 1001111001 1111011101 0101011101 1111001111 1111011101 1101010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 562 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 222 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 10, 2023
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