Analysis of Ashes Of Life
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Love has gone and left me and the days are all alike;
Eat I must, and sleep I will,—and would that night were
here!
But ah!—to lie awake and hear the slow hours strike!
Would that it were day again!—with twilight near!
Love has gone and left me and I don't know what to do;
This or that or what you will is all the same to me;
But all the things that I begin I leave before I'm through,—
There's little use in anything as far as I can see.
Love has gone and left me,—and the neighbors knock and
borrow,
And life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse,—
And to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow and to-morrow
There's this little street and this little house.
Scheme | AXXAX BCBC XDEDE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110110011101 111011101110 1 1111010101101 1110101111 1110110111111 1111111110111 11011101110111 1101010111111 111011001010 1 01110101010101 0110011001100110 1110101101 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 698 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 168 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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