This is an analysis of For Ariva by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

You Eyes, you large and all-inquiring Eyes.
That look so dubiously into me,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXcca ddaeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 11111101001 111100001 1111010111 1101111111 1101001100 1011110100 1101011100 1111111111 1111110101 1110110101 0101011101 1100110101 1111011101 11010001000
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

you, and

Anaphora

tell