Analysis of The Snow Storm
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
No hawk hangs over in this air:
The urgent snow is everywhere.
The wing adroiter than a sail
Must lean away from such a gale,
Abandoning its straight intent,
Or else expose tough ligament
And tender flesh to what before
Meant dampened feathers, nothing more.
Forceless upon our backs there fall
Infrequent flakes hexagonal,
Devised in many a curious style
To charm our safety for a while,
Where close to earth like mice we go
Under the horizontal snow.
Scheme | AABBCDEEFGHHII |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11110011 0101110 011101 11011101 01001101 11011100 01011101 11010101 10110111 01010100 0101001001 111010101 11111111 1000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 447 |
Words | 81 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 365 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 79 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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