Analysis of Shadrach O'Leary
Edwin Arlington Robinson 1869 – 1935
O’Leary was a poet—for a while:
He sang of many ladies frail and fair,
The rolling glory of their golden hair,
And emperors extinguished with a smile.
They foiled his years with many an ancient wile,
And if they limped, O’Leary didn’t care:
He turned them loose and had them everywhere,
Undoing saints and senates with their guile.
But this was not the end. A year ago
I met him—and to meet was to admire:
Forgotten were the ladies and the lyre,
And the small, ink-fed Eros of his dream.
By questioning I found a man to know—
A failure spared, a Shadrach of the Gleam.
Scheme | ABBAABBA CDDECE |
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Poetic Form | Petrarchan sonnet |
Metre | 0101010101 1111010101 0101011101 0100010101 11111101101 011101011 111101110 010101111 1111010101 1110111101 0100010001 0011110111 1100110111 010101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 108 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 6 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 220 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 53 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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