Analysis of Afternoon on a Hill
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 111011 1001 11101010 0111 1111101 1101 1011101 0011 0110111 1101 1111111 0111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 324 |
Words | 63 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 77 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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