This is an analysis of The Wilderness by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Come away! come away! there’s a frost along the marshes,
And a frozen wind that skims the shoal where it shakes the dead black water;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcdecXa fXdX dbcadada dedX dfebbXXX dXaX
- Stanza lengths: 8,4,8,4,8,4,
- Metre: 101101100101010 10101110110101110 10010101110101011 00111011100101111 10101110110101010 11010100011111 10101010100111010 001010101010101 100110111101010 10101001111 1010101010111011 10111101010 10110110111011 1101010110111010 1010101110100011 1111010110101010 0111110111111011 101110101111100 1001110111101111 001001101010101 100110110101011 10101011111 10101010100101011 1011111100 10110110101011 1111010100101010 1111111110111010 11101010011101110 1101110110111010 101011111011111 0111011100101010 101110100011111 100110111111011 10111100111 111111000101010 101111010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
that, of, calling, come, us, to, away, and, for, there, him, we
Anaphora
there
Anadiplosis
calling
