This is an analysis of Clavering by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
I say no more for Clavering
Than I should say of him who fails…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa babX Xcdc cXeX fcgc ddhd cXcb ghXh gbXX XiXi Xebe aifX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111100 11110111 01010101 11010101 11111111 01010111 11110001 11101000 11011111 01111101 11001100 11101101 11011111 100011000 01010001 110001000 11011111 01010001 11000101 11011101 11010111 11001001 11011101 11010001 11011111 11110100 01011110 11001111 11011101 11111101 010010100 11010100 11001111 11011111 01010111 11110101 11010111 01111101 11001111 10111111 11011100 01010101 11011100 11111110 11010101 11010101 11011101 11111100
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
of, good, to
Anaphora
too
