This is an analysis of Mr. Flood's Party by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Old Eben Flood, climbing alone one night
Over the hill between the town below…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbcded fdgdaXeX eXefgheh eiaiXfXf jhgXXaea eXebjkkkXafcfhbgb
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 1101100111 1001010101 1001010100 1111111101 1101011100 0110010101 1101010101 11110110101 10101110101 0111111101 0101010101 1111110101 10010111001 0111111101 11010010101 11010101110 0110010001 0101001110 1110010001 1101100101 0110010101 1101011101 0101000001 1101110101 1101010101 1100100101 1101110101 01001101111 1101011111 0110010101 0100011101 1001010101 10101111110 00111100111 0101111101 110101010100 1000010001 0111011001 101100101 10101010111 10001010101 11111111010 1101010000 1100100111 1101010100 0111010111 0101011100 01010100111 1011100010111 0111010111 1101010100 1101110101 1111110101 1111000101 1101110101 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
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