Analysis of Humoresque
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
"Heaven bless the babe!" they said.
"What queer books she must have read!"
(Love, by whom I was beguiled,
Grant I may not bear a child.)
"Little does she guess to-day
What the world may be!" they say.
(Snow, drift deep and cover
Till the spring my murdered lover.)
| Scheme | AABBCCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010111 1111111 1111101 1111101 1011111 1011111 111010 10111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 294 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 195 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 49 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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