Analysis of Indifference

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



I said,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,—
   "I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in
     bed;
But I'll never leave my pillow, though there be some
   As would let him in—and take him in with tears!" I said.
I lay,—for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn,—
   I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep;
And he found me at my window with my big cloak on,
   All sorry with the tears some folks might weep!


Scheme ABCACDEFE
Poetic Form
Metre 1111110111111 1111011111110 1 111011101111 1111001101111 11111101111011 11010111011111 0111111011111 1101011111
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 470
Words 99
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 36
Words per line (avg) 10
Letters per stanza (avg) 328
Words per stanza (avg) 92
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 29, 2023

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism more…

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