This is an analysis of Richard Cory by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efefXdcdc
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,9,
- Metre: 0101010111 1101010111 1101000101 110110001 1111110001 1111110111 1111010111 1101110111 1111110101 11000101001 0111111101 0111110001 1111110101 1101011101 1101011101 1111010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, when, in
Anaphora
and
