Burial

Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)



Mine is a body that should die at sea!
And have for a grave, instead of a grave
Six feet deep and the length of me,
All the water that is under the wave!
And terrible fishes to seize my flesh,
Such as a living man might fear,
And eat me while I am firm and fresh,—
Not wait till I've been dead for a year!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCDCD
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 308
Words 69
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry, and was also known for her feminist activism more…

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