This is an analysis of The False Gods by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
“We are false and evanescent, and aware of our deceit,
From the straw that is our vitals to the clay that is our feet.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaba ccXc dded bbXb ffcf ggbg hheh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 111110101010101 001101100011011 1111011111111010 10110101011101 111111101111111 111111101111111 1111101000101010 11110100110111 011000110011101 111011101010110 1111111110101010 10111101111101 1111101110000011 011100101010111 11011010111001000 11110100010011 10011100011101 1011000101010001 1010111010101110 10110101010101 111011100110101 111010111010001 1011111110111010 110111100111111 110110111101101 101010111110111 0110101011101010 10110111011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
you, and, our, we, that, may, to, us
