This is an analysis of Neighbors by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

As often as we thought of her,
We thought of a gray life…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabaccdc XeXedfXf bgXgXheh
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 11011100 110011 11010100 001101 11010111 111101 11001101 101101 11010001 111101 10111101 111101 10110111 111101 11110111 111101 11111101 110101 01110101 110101 11110110 111101 100101110 111111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

of, she

Anaphora

and