Analysis of Apostrophe To Man
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
(On reflecting that the world
is ready to go to war again)
Detestable race, continue to expunge yourself, die out.
Breed faster, crowd, encroach, sing hymns, build
bombing airplanes;
Make speeches, unveil statues, issue bonds, parade;
Convert again into explosives the bewildered ammonia
and the distracted cellulose;
Convert again into putrescent matter drawing flies
The hopeful bodies of the young; exhort,
Pray, pull long faces, be earnest,
be all but overcome, be photographed;
Confer, perfect your formulae, commercialize
Bacateria harmful to human tissue,
Put death on the market;
Breed, crowd, encroach,
expand, expunge yourself, die out,
Homo called sapiens.
Scheme | XX AXXXXXBXXXBXXXAX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1010101 110111101 110101010111 110101111 1010 11001110101 1001010100010010 0001010 100101110101 0101010101 11110110 11110110 010111010 1101101 111010 1101 01010111 101100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 664 |
Words | 101 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 16 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 268 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 50 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 25, 2023
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