Analysis of Eel-Grass
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
No matter what I say,
All that I really love
Is the rain that flattens on the bay,
And the eel-grass in the cove;
The jingle-shells that lie and bleach
At the tide-line, and the trace
Of higher tides along the beach:
Nothing in this place.
| Scheme | ABACDEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111 111101 10111101 0011001 01011101 1011001 11010101 10011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 48 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 185 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 46 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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