Question

Read the poem “The Man Against the Sky” by Edwin Arlington Robinson.

Between me and the sunset, like a dome
Against the glory of a world on fire,
Now burned a sudden hill,
Bleak, round, and high, by flame-lit height made higher,
With nothing on it for the flame to kill
Save one who moved and was alone up there
To loom before the chaos and the glare
As if he were the last god going home
Unto his last desire.
Dark, marvelous, and inscrutable he moved on
Till down the fiery distance he was gone,—
Like one of those eternal, remote things
That range across a man's imaginings
When a sure music fills him and he knows
What he may say thereafter to few men,—
The touch of ages having wrought
An echo and a glimpse of what he thought
A phantom or a legend until then;
For whether lighted over ways that save,
Or lured from all repose,
If he go on too far to find a grave,
Mostly alone he goes.

What is the main similarity between “The Man Against the Sky” and Frost’s poem "Mending Wall"?
Both use everyday language.
Both use a similar rhyme scheme.
Both use free verse.
Both use blank verse.

Answer 1

Both use blank verse.

Both poems are largely written in unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse) rather than regular rhyme schemes or free verse.