This is an analysis of The New Tenants by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
The day was here when it was his to know
How fared the barriers he had built between…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbXabba cdceed
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 0111101001 11010011101 0101010001 1001011101 1010110001 01000100101 1101011110 1110010101 1100110111 1110110101 0001101111 1111110101 1011010100 11001001101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, to
