Analysis of George Crabbe
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—
But his hard, human pulse is throbbing still
With the sure strength that fearless truth endows.
In spite of all fine science disavows,
Of his plain excellence and stubborn skill
There yet remains what fashion cannot kill,
Though years have thinned the laurel from his brows.
Whether or not we read him, we can feel
From time to time the vigor of his name
Against us like a finger for the shame
And emptiness of what our souls reveal
In books that are as altars where we kneel
To consecrate the flicker, not the flame.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDDCCD |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 1101011101 1101010111 1111011101 1011110101 01111101 1111000101 1101110101 1111010111 1011111111 1111010111 0111010101 01001110101 0111110111 110010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 612 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 241 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 56 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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