Analysis of Feast
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I drank at every vine.
The last was like the first.
I came upon no wine
So wonderful as thirst.
I gnawed at every root.
I ate of every plant.
I came upon no fruit
So wonderful as want.
Feed the grape and bean
To the vintner and monger:
I will lie down lean
With my thirst and my hunger.
| Scheme | ABAB CXCX DEDE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 1111001 011101 110111 110011 1111001 1111001 110111 110011 10101 1010010 11111 1110110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 283 |
| Words | 62 |
| Sentences | 8 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 18 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 73 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 30, 2023
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