Analysis of Witch-Wife
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
She is neither pink nor pale,
And she never will be all mine;
She learned her hands in a fairy-tale,
And her mouth on a valentine.
She has more hair than she needs;
In the sun 'tis a woe to me!
And her voice is a string of coloured beads,
Or steps leading into the sea.
She loves me all that she can,
And her ways to my ways resign;
But she was not made for any man,
And she never will be all mine.
Scheme | aBab cdcd ebeB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 1110111 01101111 110100101 0011010 1111111 00110111 0011011101 11100101 1111111 00111101 111111101 01101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 446 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 100 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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