This is an analysis of Ballad By The Fire by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Slowly I smoke and hug my knee,
The while a witless masquerade…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbC ababbc bC abab bcbC XXbcbC
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,2,4,4,6,
- Metre: 10111111 01010101 01110101 10010111 11010101 10011001 01010111 11110101 10010101 01111101 11110010 11011101 11110101 01110101 11010111 11110101 11110101 01111101 11011101 010101001 01111001 01111111 11110111 11110101 10 10011101 01110111 11111001 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 29
