Analysis of Sonnets 04: Only Until This Cigarette Is Ended
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Only until this cigarette is ended,
A little moment at the end of all,
While on the floor the quiet ashes fall,
And in the firelight to a lance extended,
Bizarrely with the jazzing music blended,
The broken shadow dances on the wall,
I will permit my memory to recall
The vision of you, by all my dreams attended.
And then adieu,—farewell!—the dream is done.
Yours is a face of which I can forget
The color and the features, every one,
The words not ever, and the smiles not yet;
But in your day this moment is the sun
Upon a hill, after the sun has set.
Scheme | ABBAABBACDCDCD |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001101110 0101010111 1101010101 0001101010 11011010 010110101 1101110011 010111111010 010110111 1101111101 01000101001 0111000111 1011110101 0101100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 553 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 429 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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