Analysis of Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Here is a wound that never will heal, I know,
Being wrought not of a dearness and a death,
But of a love turned ashes and the breath
Gone out of beauty; never again will grow
The grass on that scarred acre, though I sow
Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath
Its friendly weathers down, far Underneath
Shall be such bitterness of an old woe.
That April should be shattered by a gust,
That August should be levelled by a rain,
I can endure, and that the lifted dust
Of man should settle to the earth again;
But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
Between my ribs forever of hot pain.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011101111 1011101001 1101110001 11110100111 0111110111 1111000101 110101101 1111001111 1101110101 1101110101 1101010101 1111010101 1101111101 0111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 463 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 116 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 13, 2023
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