Analysis of The Unexplorer
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
There was a road ran past our house
Too lovely to explore.
I asked my mother once—she said
That if you followed where it led
It brought you to the milk-man's door.
(That's why I have not travelled more.)
| Scheme | ABCCBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110111101 110101 11110111 11110111 11110111 11111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 208 |
| Words | 42 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 156 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 39 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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