Analysis of Sonnets 05: Once More Into My Arid Days Like Dew
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Once more into my arid days like dew,
Like wind from an oasis, or the sound
Of cold sweet water bubbling underground,
A treacherous messenger, the thought of you
Comes to destroy me; once more I renew
Firm faith in your abundance, whom I found
Long since to be but just one other mound
Of sand, whereon no green thing ever grew.
And once again, and wiser in no wise,
I chase your colored phantom on the air,
And sob and curse and fall and weep and rise
And stumble pitifully on to where,
Miserable and lost, with stinging eyes,
Once more I clasp,—and there is nothing there.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101110111 1111010101 1111010010 01001000111 1101111101 1101010111 1111111101 111111101 0101010011 1111010101 0101010101 0101000111 1000011101 1111011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 450 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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