This is an analysis of The Rat by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
As often as he let himself be seen
We pitied him, or scorned him, or deplored…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabba cacaca
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1101110101 1111111101 00100010001 1111010111 1111011110 0111010001 0101010101 1111011111 1101010111 1001011101 1110011101 1111010101 1111010011 1101110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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