Analysis of Oh, Oh, You Will Be Sorry

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give me back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it my enemy or my friend I heard,
"What a big book for such a little head!"
Come, I will show you now my newest hat,
And you may watch me purse my mouth and prink!
Oh, I shall love you still, and all of that.
I never again shall tell you what I think.
I shall be sweet and crafty, soft and sly;
You will not catch me reading any more:
I shall be called a wife to pattern by;
And some day when you knock and push the door,
Some sane day, not too bright and not too stormy,
I shall be gone, and you may whistle for me.


Scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG
Poetic Form Shakespearean sonnet 
Metre 1111110111 11111011101 11110011111 1011110101 1111111101 0111111101 1111110111 11001111111 1111010101 1111110101 1111011101 0111110101 11111101110 11110111011
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 603
Words 134
Sentences 8
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14
Lines Amount 14
Letters per line (avg) 32
Words per line (avg) 9
Letters per stanza (avg) 454
Words per stanza (avg) 131
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 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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