This is an analysis of The Dead Village by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Here there is death. But even here, they say,
Here where the dull sun shines this afternoon…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cbcdbd
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101110111 1101110101 1100110011 0101110101 1101010101 0111110101 0111010111 0111010101 1101010101 1111110111 1100010111 011100001 1001010111 1111010001
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
here, no, and
Anaphora
here, the
