Analysis of The Fledgling
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
So, art thou feahered, art thou flown,
Thou naked thing?—and canst alone
Upon the unsolid summer air
Sustain thyself, and prosper there?
Shall no more with anxious note
Advise thee through the happy day,
Thrusting the worm into thy throat,
Bearing thine excrement away?
Alas, I think I see thee yet,
Perched on the windy parapet,
Defer thy flight a moment still
To clean thy wing with careful bill.
And thou are feathered, thou art flown;
And hast a project of thine own.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111111 11010101 0101101 0110101 1111101 01110101 10010111 10110001 01111111 1101010 01110101 11111101 01110111 01010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 86 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 372 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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