This is an analysis of After Apple Picking by Robert Frost.

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still.…

Browse poems by Robert Frost

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbaccdedfefgbbbghihgijijkXikbblbmlbnjnjm
  • Stanza lengths: 41,
  • Metre: 111101010101 01101 1101011101 0101110111 1011010111 1111010101 1001010101 0101011101 1101010011 1101010101 1101000101 1101010101 0101110111 1111 0111010101 1111 1111010101 10110011101 111101 11001010101 1101110101 0101000101 1111000101 11001 0111010100 111111 01010111000 00110111010 1011010101 1001111111 11 1101 11001111010 1100010101 1011 1111010 0101110100 0111 0111110010 1111010101 111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 41

Repeated words/phrases

i, from, it, and, of, sleep

Anaphora

i, of