Analysis of Travel

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



The railroad track is miles away,
    And the day is loud with voices speaking,
Yet there isn't a train goes by all day
    But I hear its whistle shrieking.

All night there isn't a train goes by,
    Though the night is still for sleep and dreaming,
But I see its cinders red on the sky,
    And hear its engine steaming.

My heart is warm with friends I make,
    And better friends I'll not be knowing;
Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,
    No matter where it's going.


Scheme ABAB CBCB DBDB
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 0111101 0011111010 1110011111 11111010 111100111 1011111010 1111101101 0111010 11111111 010111110 1110011101 1101110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 483
Words 90
Sentences 4
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 116
Words per stanza (avg) 29
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 03, 2023

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism more…

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