Analysis of Oh, my belovèd, have you thought of this
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Oh, my belovèd, have you thought of this:
How in the years to come unscrupulous Time,
More cruel than Death, will tear you from my kiss,
And make you old, and leave me in my prime?
How you and I, who scale together yet
A little while the sweet, immortal height
No pilgrim may remember or forget,
As sure as the world turns, some granite night
Shall lie awake and know the gracious flame
Gone out forever on the mutual stone;
And call to mind that on the day you came
I was a child, and you a hero grown ?
And the night pass, and the strange morning break
Upon our anguish for each other's sake !
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1110111111 10011101001 11011111111 0111011011 1101110101 0101010101 1101010101 1110111101 1101010101 11010101001 0111110111 1101010101 0011001101 01101011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 459 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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