Analysis of Pastoral
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
If it were only still!—
With far away the shrill
Crying of a cock;
Or the shaken bell
From a cow's throat
Moving through the bushes;
Or the soft shock
Of wizened apples falling
From an old tree
In a forgotten orchard
Upon the hilly rock!
Oh, grey hill,
Where the grazing herd
Licks the purple blossom,
Crops the spiky weed!
Oh, stony pasture,
Where the tall mullein
Stands up so sturdy
On its little seed!
Scheme | AABXXXBXCDB ADXEXXCE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 110101 110101 10101 10101 1011 101010 1011 1101010 1111 0001010 010101 111 10101 101010 10101 11010 1011 11110 11101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 397 |
Words | 79 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 11, 8 |
Lines Amount | 19 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 159 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 38 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 27, 2023
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