This is an analysis of The Sage by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Foreguarded and unfevered and serene,
Back to the perilous gates of Truth he went—…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaaXba bXXXbX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 100011000101 10010010111 1011010101 00110110110 10000010101 1111010100 0100110111 1101111001 1101110101 1001011101 11010111010 1101000100 1101111101 1111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, to
Anaphora
back, and
