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.


Scheme ABBACDDAEFEGEF
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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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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