This is an analysis of George Crabbe by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Give him the darkest inch your shelf allows,
Hide him in lonely garrets, if you will,—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba bccbbc
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1101011101 1101010010 1011010101 0011110101 0101110100 0011001101 1101110101 1011010001 1011111111 0101010001 0111010101 1100011101 0111110111 0101010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14