Analysis of Song Of A Second April
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
April this year, not otherwise
Than April of a year ago,
Is full of whispers, full of sighs,
Of dazzling mud and dingy snow;
Hepaticas that pleased you so
Are here again, and butterflies.
There rings a hammering all day,
And shingles lie about the doors;
In orchards near and far away
The grey wood-pecker taps and bores;
The men are merry at their chores,
And children earnest at their play.
The larger streams run still and deep,
Noisy and swift the small brooks run
Among the mullein stalks the sheep
Go up the hillside in the sun,
Pensively,—only you are gone,
You that alone I cared to keep.
Scheme | ABABBA CDCDDC EFEFXE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 11010101 11110111 110010101 11111 1101010 11010011 01010101 01010101 0111101 01110111 01010111 01011101 10010111 0101101 1101001 110111 11011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 589 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 6, 6 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 36 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 22, 2023
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