Mr. Flood’s Party (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edwin Arlington Robinson
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Narrative
- Genres: Poetry
The Poem
“Mr. Flood’s Party” by Edward Arlington Robinson consists of seven eight-line iambic pentameter stanzas, each rhyming in an abcbdefe scheme. The rhythm is steady, natural, and unobtrusive. The rhymes are simple and precise, never forced or ostentatious. Thus, in the first stanza, lines 2, 4, 6, and 8 end, respectively, “below,” “know,” “near,” and “here.”
The poem presents an ambivalent verse portrait of an old man named Eben Flood. As he is walking up a hill one night back to his humble little house, he halts in the moonlit road to...
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