"Acquainted with the Night" is a poem by Robert Frost. It first appeared in the Autumn 1928 issue of the Virginia Quarterly Review and was republished later that year in his poetry collection West-Running Brook. The Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn, 1928 issue. VQRonline.org.
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Analysis The poem is written in strict iambic pentameter, with 14 lines like a sonnet, but with a terza rima rhyme scheme which follows the complex pattern of: ABA BCB CDC DAD AA. An earlier example of the measure's adaptation to the sonnet form is found in Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind".Full text at Poetry Foundation
Publication history The poem first appeared in the Autumn 1928 issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review, edited by James Southall Wilson.VQR: Autumn 1928. VQRonline.org. It was republished that year by Henry Holt and Company in the poetry collection West-Running Brook.West-Running Brook. 1928 first edition. gutenberg.ca.
References
Sources Nancy Lewis Tuten; John Zubizarreta (2001). The Robert Frost Encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. . Jay Parini (2000). Robert Frost: A Life. Macmillan. . Jeffrey Meyers (1996). Robert Frost: A Biography. Houghton Mifflin. .
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Text of the poem Excerpt from a close reading of "Acquainted with the Night"