This is an analysis of The Long Race by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Up the old hill to the old house again
Where fifty years ago the friend was young…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaXaaaaaa
- Stanza lengths: 15,
- Metre: 1011001101 1100010111 1101011101 1111010101 1110010111 0111010101 0101010011 0101010111 11110111101 0111011101 1101111101 1101110011 1011001101 0110010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
old
