Analysis of I Dreamed I Moved Among The Elysian Fields

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



I dreamed I moved among the Elysian fields,
In converse with sweet women long since dead;
And out of blossoms which that meadow yields
I wove a garland for your living head.
Danai, that was the vessel for a day
Of golden Jove, I saw, and at her side,
Whom Jove the Bull desired and bore away,
Europa stood, and the Swan's featherless bride.
All these were mortal women, yet all these
Above the ground had had a god for guest;
Freely I walked beside them and at ease,
Addressing them, by them again addressed,
And marvelled nothing, for remembering you,
Wherefore I was among them well I knew.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 111101011 0101110111 011101111 1101011101 111010101 1101110101 11010100101 01010011001 1101010111 0101110111 1011011011 0101110101 0110101001 111011111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 587
Words 111
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 33
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 465
Words per stanza (avg) 109
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 17, 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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