Analysis of Ebb
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I know what my heart is like
Since your love died:
It is like a hollow ledge
Holding a little pool
Left there by the tide,
A little tepid pool,
Drying inward from the edge.
| Scheme | ABCDBDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111111 1111 1110101 100101 11101 010101 1010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 174 |
| Words | 37 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 35 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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