Analysis of Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Pity me not because the light of day
At close of day no longer walks the sky;
Pity me not for beauties passed away
From field and thicket as the the year goes by;
Pity me not the waning of the moon,
Nor that the ebbing tide goes out to sea,
Nor that a man's desire is hushed so soon,
And you no longer look with love on me.
This have I known always: Love is no more
Than the wide blossom which the wind assails,
Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore,
Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales:
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at ever turn.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGG |
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Poetic Form | Shakespearean sonnet |
Metre | 1011010111 1111110101 1011110101 11010100111 1011010101 1101011111 11010101111 0111011111 111111111 1011010101 1011110101 111010001 1011011111 101111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 587 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 03, 2023
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