Transcriber Changes
Page 63: Single quote changed to double after =through=("He'll pull =through."=)
Page 72: Removed extra stanza break after =stumbles=(The handle =stumbles. The= stubborn thing, the way itjars your arm!)
Page 74: Removed extra stanza break after =wife=("Hello, Meserve. You're there, then!--And your =wife?Good!= Why I asked--she didn't seem to answer.)
About this text
Transcriber Changes is in the public domain. This text is taken from Mountain Interval, Project Gutenberg ebook #29345; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Robert Frost, Transcriber Changes, in Mountain Interval (1916), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #29345, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/frost-mountain-interval/transcriber-changes.html, id L02672.
Form and metre
Transcriber Changes is 8 lines in 3 stanzas. The metre is iambic hexameter, measured from the stress the words themselves fix (confidence 78%). 73% of its stressed syllables fall where the metre puts the beat. The lines average 9.1 syllables. 2 lines end on an unstressed syllable, a feminine ending. 50% of the lines run on without a stop at the line end.
See other poems in iambic hexameter.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 3 AA- =wife=A · =wifeA · answer
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. Read against iambic hexameter. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Page 63: Single quote changed to double after =through= | 11 | ·/˘···/˘··· |
| ("He'll pull =through."=) | 3 | ··· |
| Page 72: Removed extra stanza break after =stumbles= | 12 | ·˘//˘/˘···/˘ |
| (The handle =stumbles. The= stubborn thing, the way it | 12 | ·/˘/˘·/˘···· |
| jars your arm!) | 3 | ··· |
| Page 74: Removed extra stanza break after =wife= | 11 | ·˘//˘/˘···· |
| ("Hello, Meserve. You're there, then!--And your =wife? | 10 | ˘//˘······ |
| Good!= Why I asked--she didn't seem to answer.) | 11 | ·····/˘··/˘ |
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