This is an analysis of Why He Was There by Edwin Arlington Robinson.
Much as he left it when he went from us
Here was the room again where he had been…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbX cdXcdX
- Stanza lengths: 8,6,
- Metre: 1111011101 1101011110 1111011101 1111010100 1101100101 1111001101 1101101011 1111111000 1111011101 1111010101 0111110011 1111010011 1111110111 11110111110
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
he, as, and
Anaphora
as, and
