This is an analysis of Monadnock Through The Trees by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Before there was in Egypt any sound
Of those who reared a more prodigious means…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba ccdeed
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 0111010101 0111010101 1011010111 1111110101 10001110001 0101011101 1101010101 0110010101 1101010111 1100011111 0101011101 1111110111 1100011101 0100110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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