Analysis of To a Young Poet
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Time cannot break the bird's wing from the bird.
Bird and wing together
Go down, one feather.
No thing that ever flew,
Not the lark, not you,
Can die as others do.
| Scheme | XAA BBB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101011101 101010 11110 111101 10111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 166 |
| Words | 34 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 62 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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