Analysis of The Death Of Autumn
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes,
And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind
Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned
Of half their tribe, and over the flattened rushes,
Stripped of its secret, open, stark and bleak,
Blackens afar the half-forgotten creek,—
Then leans on me the weight of the year, and crushes
My heart. I know that Beauty must ail and die,
And will be born again,—but ah, to see
Beauty stiffened, staring up at the sky!
Oh, Autumn! Autumn!—What is the Spring to me?
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111100111010 01010110101 1110010101 111101001010 1111010101 1001010101 111101101010 11111101101 0111011111 1010101101 11010110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 516 |
Words | 95 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 11 |
Lines Amount | 11 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 398 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 90 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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