Analysis of Whereas At Morning In A Jeweled Crown
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Whereas at morning in a Jeweled Crown
I bit my fingers and was hard to please,
Having shook disaster till the fruit fell down
I feel tonight more happy and at ease:
Feet running in the corridors, men quick—
Buckling their sword-belts, bumping down the stair,
Challenge, and rattling bridge-chain, and the click
Of hooves on pavement—this will clear the air.
Private this chamber as it has not been
In many a month of muffled hours; almost,
Lulled by the uproar, I could lie serene
And sleep, until all's won, until all's lost,
And the door's opened and the issue shown,
And I walk forth Hell's Mistress—or my own.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011100011 1111001111 10101010111 1101110011 1100010011 1011110101 1001011001 1111011101 1011011111 01001110101 110111101 0101110111 0011000101 0111110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 615 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 480 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 16, 2023
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