This is an analysis of The Pilot by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

From the Past and Unavailing
Out of cloudland we are steering:…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaabbab Xccaddad aeeaXfaf
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 00111010 10101110 10101010 00111110 1110111 1111101 11111110 1011111 10111000 11101110 10001010 11111010 1011111 0011101 11101010 1111101 10100110 11101110 10111110 11100110 1110010 1111101 11101110 1111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

and, we, have

Anaphora

you

Anadiplosis

you