This is an analysis of Cliff Klingenhagen by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Cliff Klingenhagen had me in to dine
With him one day; and after soup and meat,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa bcdbcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1100011001 0111110111 1101011001 1111011101 1101110101 1101111101 01000111010 0111010111 1111110111 1101110111 1111010100 1111010111 1101001110 1101110000
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

and, i

Anaphora

and