This is an analysis of Leonora by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

They have made for Leonora this low dwelling in the ground,
And with cedar they have woven the four walls round.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb bbbb aacc
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 111110100110001 101011100111 1010110101101 101110101111110 101010100010101 101011101010101 111110101010111 1001011101010101 100010100011111 101000100011101 101010100011101 101110101011100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

have, and, with, be

Anaphora

they, there