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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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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