This is an analysis of The Master by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
A flying word from here and there
Had sown the name at which we sneered,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbc dbdbbXbe fXfffefe ghghhXhf ijijjbjb bkbkklkl mlmllXli lclXcmXm
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 01010111 11011111 11011101 00011101 01000111 11010101 11010011 10010111 11110100 11010101 11010101 11011101 11010111 1111100 11010111 11011111 11110001 11111110 11111111 01011111 11010111 01101101 11111101 11010001 11010001 11010111 11001011 11001101 11010111 010111110 00010111 11010111 01101101 01010111 100000101 01000111 11001101 01001101 01111101 11010101 11011101 11010111 11010111 11110101 01001101 10010101 11000101 01010100 01001101 11010101 010100101 01010001 01110101 11111100 100110001 10011001 11011101 111011001 11110101 11111100 11110001 11000001 1100110 11110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 64
Repeated words/phrases
and, so, he, we
Anaphora
and, the