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Analysis of "For Once, Then, Something" by Robert Frost

Poem Found Here:  "For Once, Then, Something" by Robert Frost I still don't know how to analyze this poem.  After rereading this poem it seems very uncharacteristic of a Frost poem.  Fifteen lines, no rhyme scheme, no focus on meter.  It seems that this poem is more of Frost's musings and relating his thoughts to the scene. For example, "Others taught me with having knelt at well-curbs / Always wrong to the light,"  Note how the speaker focuses on what the other's taught him and not focusing on his actions -- the wrongness of light is an interesting generalization, but the poem is just a collection of image generalizaitons: "Deeper down in the well than where the water / Gives me back in a shining surface picture"  The images state something -- there is action behind them, but there are more questions, what is the surface picture?  What shines from the "wrongness of light?" Then this curious line, "Me myself in the summer heaven ...