Analysis of Indifference
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I said,—for Love was laggard, O, Love was slow to come,—
"I'll hear his step and know his step when I am warm in
bed;
But I'll never leave my pillow, though there be some
As would let him in—and take him in with tears!" I said.
I lay,—for Love was laggard, O, he came not until dawn,—
I lay and listened for his step and could not get to sleep;
And he found me at my window with my big cloak on,
All sorry with the tears some folks might weep!
Scheme | ABCACDEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111110111111 1111011111110 1 111011101111 1111001101111 11111101111011 11010111011111 0111111011111 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 470 |
Words | 99 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 9 |
Lines Amount | 9 |
Letters per line (avg) | 36 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 328 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 92 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 29, 2023
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