Analysis of To Kathleen
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Still must the poet as of old,
In barren attic bleak and cold,
Starve, freeze, and fashion verses to
Such things as flowers and song and you;
Still as of old his being give
In Beauty's name, while she may live,
Beauty that may not die as long
As there are flowers and you and song.
| Scheme | AABB XXCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 11010111 01010101 11010101 111100101 11111101 0111111 10111111 111100101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 288 |
| Words | 58 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 109 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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