This is an analysis of On The Night Of A Friend's Wedding by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
If ever I am old, and all alone,
I shall have killed one grief, at any rate;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabXa bcXbcX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101111101 1111111101 1111111101 1101011111 0101011111 1111111111 011110001 0111011101 1101010101 1001011111 1110000101 0101110101 1011110101 0101111100
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
i, have
