Analysis of Not In A Silver Casket Cool With Pearls
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Not in a silver casket cool with pearls
Or rich with red corundum or with blue,
Locked, and the key withheld, as other girls
Have given their loves, I give my love to you;
Not in a lovers'-knot, not in a ring
Worked in such fashion, and the legend plain—
Semper fidelis, where a secret spring
Kennels a drop of mischief for the brain:
Love in the open hand, no thing but that,
Ungemmed, unhidden, wishing not to hurt,
As one should bring you cowslips in a hat
Swung from the hand, or apples in her skirt,
I bring you, calling out as children do:
"Look what I have!—And these are all for you."
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1001010111 1111010111 1001011101 11011111111 1001011001 1011000101 1110101 1001110101 1001011111 1110111 111111001 1101110001 1111011101 1111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 591 |
Words | 118 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 453 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 114 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 19, 2023
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