Analysis of The Return From Town
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
As I sat down by Saddle Stream
To bathe my dusty feet there,
A boy was standing on the bridge
Any girl would meet there.
As I went over Woody Knob
A youth was coming up the hill
Any maid would follow.
Then in I turned at my own gate,—
And nothing to be sad for—
To such a man as any WIFE
Would pass a pretty lad for.
| Scheme | XAXA XXX XBXB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 11111101 1111011 01110101 101111 11110101 01110101 101110 10111111 0101111 11011101 1101011 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 318 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 3, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 11 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 05, 2023
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