Analysis of God's World

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



O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
   Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!
   Thy mists that roll and rise!
Thy woods this autumn day, that ache and sag
And all but cry with colour! That gaunt crag
To crush! To lift the lean of that black bluff!
World, World, I cannot get thee close enough!

Long have I known a glory in it all,
   But never knew I this;
   Here such a passion is
As stretcheth me apart, -- Lord, I do fear
Thou'st made the world too beautiful this year;
My soul is all but out of me, -- let fall
No burning leaf; prithee, let no bird call.


Scheme ABBCCAA DXXEEDD
Poetic Form
Metre 1111011101 111111 111101 1111011101 011111111 1111011111 1111011101 1111010011 110111 110101 111011111 11101110011 1111111111 110111111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 567
Words 113
Sentences 9
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 7, 7
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 206
Words per stanza (avg) 56
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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