Analysis of Passer Mortuus Est
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Death devours all lovely things;
Lesbia with her sparrow
Shares the darkness,—presently
Every bed is narrow.
Unremembered as old rain
Dries the sheer libation,
And the little petulant hand
Is an annotation.
After all, my erstwhile dear,
My no longer cherished,
Need we say it was not love,
Now that love is perished?
| Scheme | XAXA BBXX XCXC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
| Metre | 10101101 11010 1010100 1001110 1111 1011 00101001 11010 101111 111010 1111111 111110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 315 |
| Words | 56 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 84 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 18 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 24, 2023
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