Analysis of Sonnet 06: Bluebeard
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
This door you might not open, and you did;
So enter now, and see for what slight thing
You are betrayed.... Here is no treasure hid
No cauldron, no clear crystal mirroring
The sought-for truth, no heads of women slain
For greed like yours, no writhings of distress
But only what you see.... Look yet again—
An empty room, cobwebbed and comfortless
Yet this alone out of my life I kept
Unto myself, lest any know me quite;
And you did so profane me when you crept
Unto the threshold of this room to-night
That I must never more behold your face.
This now is yours. I seek another place.
Scheme | ABABCDEDFGFGHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110011 1101011111 1101111101 1101110100 0111111101 111111101 1101111101 1101101 1101111111 101110111 0111011111 100111111 1111010111 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 604 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 110 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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