This is an analysis of Supremacy by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

There is a drear and lonely tract of hell
From all the common gloom removed afar:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths: 8,6,
  • Metre: 1001110101 0101010101 0111001111 1101111101 1101011101 1111011101 1111011101 0111010100 1111010111 0001110111 1001010101 0101110101 1001100001 1101110001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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