Analysis of First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1101111 111101 11110111 110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 126 |
| Words | 27 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 88 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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