Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 6 AIL 0523 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Frost's Birches as Blank Verse
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The idea
The anchor sets Birches as its blank-verse example. Frost's line, quoted in the glossary from another poem, runs: I have been one acquainted with the night. Ten syllables, five beats, no rhyme with its neighbours. Frost published Birches in nineteen sixteen, so the text is in the public domain.
In practice
Ten syllables, five beats, no rhyme.
Where people slip
Published nineteen sixteen, public domain.
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