Analysis of Scrub
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
If I grow bitterly,
Like a gnarled and stunted tree,
Bearing harshly of my youth
Puckered fruit that sears the mouth;
If I make of my drawn boughs
An Inshospitable House,
Out of which I nevery pry
Towards the water and the sky,
Under which I stand and hide
And hear the day go by outside;
It is that a wind to strong
Bent my back when I was young,
It is that I fear the rain
Lest it blister me again.
Scheme | AABCDEFFGGHIJK |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100 1010101 1010111 111101 1111111 111 111111 01010001 1011101 01011111 1110111 1111111 1111101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 395 |
Words | 84 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 311 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 82 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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