This is an analysis of An Evangelist's Wife by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
“Why am I not myself these many days,
You ask? And have you nothing more to ask?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab bcbc Xdad ee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,2,
- Metre: 1111111101 1111110101 1111111111 01110110111 1000010111 11111101110 01110111001 11110100010 11110100111 1111110111 1001111101 1100111101 0101110101 1001101101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
you, i, to
