Analysis of Sonnets 12: Cherish You Then The Hope I Shall Forget
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Cherish you then the hope I shall forget
At length, my lord, Pieria?—put away
For your so passing sake, this mouth of clay
These mortal bones against my body set,
For all the puny fever and frail sweat
Of human love,—renounce for these, I say,
The Singing Mountain's memory, and betray
The silent lyre that hangs upon me yet?
Ah, but indeed, some day shall you awake,
Rather, from dreams of me, that at your side
So many nights, a lover and a bride,
But stern in my soul's chastity, have lain,
To walk the world forever for my sake,
And in each chamber find me gone again!
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Metre | 1011011101 11111101 1111011111 1101011101 1101010011 1101011111 01010100001 0101110111 1101111101 1011111111 1101010001 1101110011 1101010111 0011011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 571 |
Words | 112 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 440 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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