Lyric Poem · Nature
The Pasture
by Robert Frost · 1914
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Quick facts
- Poem
- The Pasture
- Poet
- Robert Frost
- Published
- 1914
- Length
- 8 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Nature, Love, Short
Craft notes
How this poem works
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- Shape
- 8 lines · 2 quatrains
- End rhyme
- ABBC in every stanza.
- Line length
- Mostly 10-syllable lines (pentameter length).
- Refrain
- “I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.”Repeated lines act as the poem's hinge or drumbeat.
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Text, source & rights
A traceable edition
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- Author record
- Robert Frost1874–1963
- Source record
- WikisourceThe Pasture by robert-frost, Wikisource transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- 1914
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 40fa2bd758cf13d7…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.