Analysis of Sorrow
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Sorrow like a ceaseless rain
Beats upon my heart.
People twist and scream in pain,—
Dawn will find them still again;
This has neither wax nor wane,
Neither stop nor start.
People dress and go to town;
I sit in my chair.
All my thoughts are slow and brown:
Standing up or sitting down
Little matters, or what gown
Or what shoes I wear.
| Scheme | ABAXAB CDCCCD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 1010101 10111 1010101 1111101 1110111 10111 1010111 11011 1111101 1011101 1010111 11111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 345 |
| Words | 67 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6, 6 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 130 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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