Analysis of The Sound of Trees
Robert Frost 1874 (San Francisco) – 1963 (Boston)
I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place?
We suffer them by the day
Till we lose all measure of pace,
And fixity in our joys,
And acquire a listening air.
They are that that talks of going
But never gets away;
And that talks no less for knowing,
As it grows wiser and older,
That now it means to stay.
My feet tug at the floor
And my head sways to my shoulder
Sometimes when I watch trees sway,
From the window or the door.
I shall set forth for somewhere,
I shall make the reckless choice
Some day when they are in voice
And tossing so as to scare
The white clouds over them on.
I shall have less to say,
But I shall be gone.
Scheme | ABACDEDCBFEFGEHGEHBIIBJEK |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 1100101 111111 0100111 110101 11110101 1101101 11111011 010101 001001001 11111110 110101 01111110 11110010 111111 111101 01111110 0111111 1010101 111111 1110101 1111101 0101111 0111011 111111 11111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 700 |
Words | 148 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 25 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 556 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 146 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 26, 2023
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