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
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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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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