Analysis of Doubt No More That Oberon
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Doubt no more that Oberon—
Never doubt that Pan
Lived, and played a reed, and ran
After nymphs in a dark forest,
In the merry, credulous days,—
Lived, and led a fairy band
Over the indulgent land!
Ah, for in this dourest, sorest
Age man's eye has looked upon,
Death to fauns and death to fays,
Still the dog-wood dares to raise—
Healthy tree, with trunk and root—
Ivory bowls that bear no fruit,
And the starlings and the jays—
Birds that cannot even sing—
Dare to come again in spring!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111110 10111 1010101 10100110 00101001 1010101 1000101 110111 1111101 1110111 1011111 1011101 10011111 001001 1110101 1110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 491 |
Words | 94 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 374 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 91 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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