Analysis of Sonnet III: Mindful of you the sodden earth
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,
And all the flowers that in the springtime grow,
And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow
Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing
The summer through, and each departing wing,
And all the nests that the bared branches show,
And all winds that in any weather blow,
And all the storms that the four seasons bring.
You go no more on your exultant feet
Up paths that only mist and morning knew,
Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat
Of a bird's wings too high in air to view,--
But you were something more than young and sweet
And fair,--and the long year remembers you.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011010101 0101010011 0101010001 1010111111 0101010101 0101101101 0111010101 0101101101 1111110101 1111010101 1101110101 1011110111 1101011101 0100110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 644 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 485 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 23, 2023
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