Analysis of Memorial To D.C.
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
(Vassar College, 1918)
O, loveliest throat of all sweet throats,
Where now no more the music is,
With hands that wrote you little notes
I write you little elegies!
| Scheme | X AXAA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 1010 1111111 11110101 11111101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 167 |
| Words | 31 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 5 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 64 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 15 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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