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03-20-2009, 05:40 AM
A. E. Stallings
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The Millay poem is lovely--and a favorite of mine too--but not a syllabic poem. Rather, it is accentual-syllabic, in trochaic tetrameter, with a dimeter tail at the end of the stanzas.
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