Analysis of Prayer To Persephone
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be:
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee:
Say to her, "My dear, my dear,
It is not so dreadful here."
| Scheme | abAcbbcaAde |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101 1011111 1010111 1111101 1010001 1111111 1010101 1011 1010111 1101111 1111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 313 |
| Words | 66 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 11 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 62 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 07, 2023
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