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.
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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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