Analysis of Doubt No More That Oberon

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



Doubt no more that Oberon—
Never doubt that Pan
Lived, and played a reed, and ran
After nymphs in a dark forest,
In the merry, credulous days,—
Lived, and led a fairy band
Over the indulgent land!
Ah, for in this dourest, sorest
Age man's eye has looked upon,
Death to fauns and death to fays,
Still the dog-wood dares to raise—
Healthy tree, with trunk and root—
Ivory bowls that bear no fruit,
And the starlings and the jays—
Birds that cannot even sing—
Dare to come again in spring!


Scheme ABBCDEECADDFFDGG
Poetic Form
Metre 111110 10111 1010101 10100110 00101001 1010101 1000101 110111 1111101 1110111 1011111 1011101 10011111 001001 1110101 1110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 491
Words 94
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 374
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism more…

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