This is an analysis of Demos by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

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All you that are enamored of my name…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bccb bXcb dbbdbd X effeeXae ghhghg
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,6,1,8,6,
  • Metre: 1 1111010011 11011111010 01110111010 1000111101 0111010101 0101111101 11010100010 0111110111 1110110111 0101101111 0111011111 01010010101 0101001111 1110111111 1 1101110101 1101000100 0111010100 1100010001 1111111101 0111110100 0111111100 0101010001 1001111111 11010000101 1101011101 1111010111 0101010101 10010000101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

i, you, to