This is an analysis of Lisette And Eileen by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
“When he was here alive, Eileen,
There was a word you might have said;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd bebe afaf ghgh ibib bfbf jajaXjaja
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110101 11011111 11011110 11011111 11001111 11010101 11111111 01010100 11011101 01111111 111010011 11011111 11111111 11111111 11111101 11111111 11111001 01001111 11011101 01101101 11100101 11110111 11110101 01010101 01011101 11010111 11111101 11011101 11010111 01011110 11011111 11111101 11111101 11010001 11111111 11111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
you, i, mean, and, as
Anaphora
and, i, as
