Analysis of Low-Tide

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



These wet rocks where the tide has been,
Barnacled white and weeded brown
And slimed beneath to a beautiful green,
These wet rocks where the tide went down
Will show again when the tide is high
Faint and perilous, far from shore,
No place to dream, but a place to die,—
The bottom of the sea once more.
There was a child that wandered through
A giant's empty house all day,—
House full of wonderful things and new,
But no fit place for a child to play.


Scheme ABCBDEDEFGFG
Poetic Form
Metre 11110111 110101 0101101001 11110111 110110111 10100111 111110111 01010111 11011101 01010111 111100101 111110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 453
Words 91
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 353
Words per stanza (avg) 87
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 06, 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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