Analysis of I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zest
To bear your body's weight upon my breast:
So subtly is the fume of life designed,
To clarify the pulse and cloud the mind,
And leave me once again undone, possessed.
Think not for this, however, the poor treason
Of my stout blood against my staggering brain,
I shall remember you with love, or season
My scorn wtih pity, -- let me make it plain:
I find this frenzy insufficient reason
For conversation when we meet again.
| Scheme | ABBAABBACDCDCE |
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| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1101010001 1101010111 1111111 1101010101 1111010111 11001011101 110010101 0111010101 1111100110 11110111001 11010111110 1111011111 11110001010 101011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 575 |
| Words | 110 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 454 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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