This is an analysis of The Clinging Vine by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
“Be calm? And was I frantic?
You’ll have me laughing soon.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababcdcd bebecfcf ghghXhhh ieiehjhj cbcbkdkd gggghgXg lelehdhd mkmknjnj ekekeded fofolele ibibcmcmXgfgfbebe
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,17,
- Metre: 0111110 111101 1110010 110101 1111010 110101 1111010 110111 1111010 101111 0111110 010101 1101010 010101 1111110 010001 0101110 111101 0111110 010011 1101110 010111 1110110 111101 1110010 110111 1111110 111111 1111110 111111 1101010 111111 1111110 111101 1101110 111111 1111111 110101 11011011 010011 0111010 110101 1111001 010101 1101010 111101 1111100 110111 0100110 010101 11101010 010111 11111110 001101 1111110 111111 1101011 100111 0111111 110111 0111110 1011101 1111010 110111 1101110 01111 1101110 010001 1111110 111011 1111110 011111 1101010 111111 0111100 101101 0111010 011111 1111010 110101 1111010 111101 1101010 110101 1111010 111111 1101110 110101 1111010 110111 1101110 010101 0111010 111101 1111110 111111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 96
Repeated words/phrases
and, her, it, you, i, lies
Anaphora
you, if, and
Anadiplosis
her
