This is an analysis of The Growth Of Lorraine by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
I
While I stood listening, discreetly dumb,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a baabbaab cdceed X fggffhhf fhfiih
- Stanza lengths: 1,8,6,1,8,6,
- Metre: 1 1111000101 0111001101 1111110111 1101110011 1100111101 1001010111 1011001110 1111011111 1111011111 1111010010 1111011011 1111011101 1111011101 1100010111 1 1011010111 1111010001 1111010001 1101111111 1111101101 1111010111 1111110011 0001111101 1111011111 1111111111 1100110101 1000110101 0111110111 0111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 31
Repeated words/phrases
i, and, born, to, be, you
Anaphora
you
