This is an analysis of The Altar by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Alone, remote, nor witting where I went,
I found an altar builded in a dream—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaXbba cacbba
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0101110111 1111010001 01001101101 1111011100 0101011101 0101011001 0100101101 1111101101 0111010001 1011010001 1101101101 1111011101 0101110101 1111111101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
so, s
