Analysis of Second Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand:
Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!
| Scheme | AA |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Couplet |
| Metre | 1010101010101 1011101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
| Characters | 107 |
| Words | 21 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 2 |
| Lines Amount | 2 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 40 |
| Words per line (avg) | 10 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 79 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 19 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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