This is an analysis of The Old King's New Jester by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
You that in vain would front the coming order
With eyes that meet forlornly what they must,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbddbdb deXeccdcd Xbfbaaeae afXfggbgb
- Stanza lengths: 9,9,9,9,
- Metre: 11011101010 0111100111 11000101010 111101 01110110110 0101110 101111 01110111010 101111 10011111110 1101110111 01000101010 010111 11011001010 0100010 111101 11011110010 101101 10011111010 10110011001 111100111011 101111 11110101110 1111010 01001111111 10011111010 111101 00111101010 1111111111 111110010100 101101 11110011010 1101010 01011000100 11111111010 010110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
your, we, us, you
Anaphora
for
