Analysis of I Know I Am But Summer To Your Heart
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year;
And you must welcome from another part
Such noble moods as are not mine, my dear.
No gracious weight of golden fruits to sell
Have I, nor any wise and wintry thing;
And I have loved you all too long and well
To carry still the high sweet breast of Spring.
Wherefore I say: O love, as summer goes,
I must be gone, steal forth with silent drums,
That you may hail anew the bird and rose
When I come back to you, as summer comes.
Else will you seek, at some not distant time,
Even your summer in another clime.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1111110111 0101110101 0111010101 1101111111 1101110111 1111010101 0111111101 1101011111 111111101 1111111101 1111010101 1111111101 1111111101 1011000101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 583 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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