This is an analysis of Stafford's Cabin by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Once there was a cabin here, and once there was a man;
And something happened here before my memory began.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd eeff gghh aaee eeeeXccdd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 1110101111101 11010101110001 1110100010011 11110001010101 1110101111101 11110011110100 1000101110101 11000101110111 11011101110101 01011101111101 1110101110101 11110111011101 11000100110101 11010101111101 1000101011101 01010111100101 10101010010001 11110101110101 11111101011111 10100101111101 11110101110100 111010101011101 11011100011101 110101011010101 1000101110111 11111101110101 01011101011101 11010101101011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, it, to, that, you
