This is an analysis of Fragment by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Faint white pillars that seem to fade
As you look from here are the first one sees…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababbaba ccccca dbdbbebe
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,8,
  • Metre: 11101101 1110110111 00110111001 0101111001 1100110111 1011110101 11110111101 1101101111 110101111 10111111 1010101101 1110111101 100110110011 1111110111 11111101 101011101 1100100100 110101001 11100110111 110100101 100100101 100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

and, he

Anaphora

of