Analysis of Iota Subscript
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
Seek not in me the bit I capital,
Not yet the little dotted in me seek.
If I have in me any I at all,
'Tis the iota subscript of the Greek.
So small an I as an attention beggar.
The letter you will find me subscript to
Is neither alpha, eta, nor omega,
But upsilon which is the Greek for you.
| Scheme | XAXA XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101011100 1101010011 1110110111 100101101 11111101010 010111111 1101011010 11110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 293 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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