This is an analysis of Veteran Sirens by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
The ghost of Ninon would be sorry now
To laugh at them, were she to see them here,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd ebeX bXbX fgfg
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101010101 0110010101 1111011101 0101010101 11001100101 1111011111 1101010100 0101010101 0101010100 0101010101 1111010100 1101000100 1111011111 0111011100 1111011101 0101000100 1101010011 1100111111 1101011111 1101011101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Repeated words/phrases
to, they, so, poor, and
Anaphora
the, poor
