Analysis of Lament
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Listen, children:
Your father is dead.
From his old coats
I'll make you little jackets;
I'll make you little trousers
From his old pants.
There'll be in his pockets
Things he used to put there,
Keys and pennies
Covered with tobacco;
Dan shall have the pennies
To save in his bank;
Anne shall have the keys
To make a pretty noise with.
Life must go on,
And the dead be forgotten;
Life must go on,
Though good men die;
Anne, eat your breakfast;
Dan, take your medicine;
Life must go on;
I forget just why.
Scheme | abcdefghijikilMaMnoaMn |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010 11011 1111 1111010 1111010 1111 1010110 111111 1010 10101 111010 11011 11101 1101011 1111 0011010 1111 1111 11110 111100 1111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 490 |
Words | 97 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 22 |
Lines Amount | 22 |
Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 387 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 95 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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