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

I found a torrent falling in a glen
Where the sun’s light shone silvered and leaf-split;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaaccadeefdf
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1101010001 10111100111 0101101100 1101010011 1101010011 0111010101 1101010011 1101010111 0110111111 0101110001 1101010101 0101011101 0101001111 010011111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

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