Analysis of Tavern
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I'll keep a little tavern
Below the high hill's crest,
Wherein all grey-eyed people
May set them down and rest.
There shall be plates a-plenty,
And mugs to melt the chill
Of all the grey-eyed people
Who happen up the hill.
There sound will sleep the traveller,
And dream his journey's end,
But I will rouse at midnight
The falling fire to tend.
Aye, 'tis a curious fancy—
But all the good I know
Was taught me out of two grey eyes
A long time ago.
Scheme | XABA CDBD XEXE CFXF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1101010 010111 0111110 111101 1111010 011101 1101110 110101 11110100 01111 111111 0101011 11010010 110111 11111111 01101 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 466 |
Words | 88 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 86 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 06, 2023
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