Analysis of Sonnets 07: When I Too Long Have Looked Upon Your Face
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
When I too long have looked upon your face,
Wherein for me a brightness unobscured
Save by the mists of brightness has its place,
And terrible beauty not to be endured,
I turn away reluctant from your light,
And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
From having looked too long upon the sun.
Then is my daily life a narrow room
In which a little while, uncertainly,
Surrounded by impenetrable gloom,
Among familiar things grown strange to me
Making my way, I pause, and feel, and hark,
Till I become accustomed to the dark.
| Scheme | ABABBCBCDEDEFF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1111110111 01110101 1101110111 01001011101 1101010111 0110101 0101010111 1101110101 1111010101 0101010100 0101010001 0101011111 1011110101 1101010101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 554 |
| Words | 102 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 444 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 100 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 20, 2023
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