Analysis of Sonnets 08: And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
And you as well must die, beloved dust,
And all your beauty stand you in no stead;
This flawless, vital hand, this perfect head,
This body of flame and steel, before the gust
Of Death, or under his autumnal frost,
Shall be as any leaf, be no less dead
Than the first leaf that fell,--this wonder fled.
Altered, estranged, disintegrated, lost.
Nor shall my love avail you in your hour.
In spite of all my love, you will arise
Upon that day and wander down the air
Obscurely as the unattended flower,
It mattering not how beautiful you were,
Or how beloved above all else that dies.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011111011 0111011011 1101011011 11011010101 1111010101 1111011111 1011111101 100101001 11110110110 0111111101 0111010101 110001010 111110010 1101011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 575 |
Words | 110 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 451 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 107 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 28, 2023
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