Analysis of City Trees
Edna St Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland, Maine) – 1950 ( Austerlitz, New York)
The trees along this city street,
Save for the traffic and the trains,
Would make a sound as thin and sweet
As trees in country lanes.
And people standing in their shade
Out of a shower, undoubtedly
Would hear such music as is made
Upon a country tree.
Oh, little leaves that are so dumb
Against the shrieking city air,
I watch you when the wind has come,--
I know what sound is there.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD EFEF |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme Quatrain |
Metre | 01011101 11010001 11011101 110101 01010011 110100100 11110111 010101 11011111 01010101 11110111 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 380 |
Words | 77 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 25 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 27, 2023
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