Analysis of Dirge

Edna St Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland, Maine) – 1950 ( Austerlitz, New York)



Boys and girls that held her dear,
Do your weeping now;
All you loved of her lies here.

Brought to earth the arrogant brow,
And the withering tongue
Chastened; do your weeping now.

Sing whatever songs are sung,
Wind whatever wreath,
For a playmate perished young,

For a spirit spent in death.
Boys and girls that held her dear,
All you loved of her lies here.
  


Scheme AbC bdb dxd xAC
Poetic Form
Metre 1011101 11101 1111011 11101001 001001 1011101 110111 1101 101101 1010101 1011101 1111011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 359
Words 69
Sentences 5
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 71
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Edna St Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical 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. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work.  more…

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