Analysis of Sonnet II: Time does not bring relief
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of my pain!
I miss him in the weeping of the rain;
I want him at the shrinking of the tide;
The old snows melt from every mountain-side,
And last year's leaves are smoke in every lane;
But last year's bitter loving must remain
Heaped on my heart, and my old thoughts abide.
There are a hundred places where I fear
To go - so with his memory they brim.
And entering with relief some quiet place
Where never fell his foot or shone his face
I say, 'There is no memory of him here!'
And so stand stricken, so remembering him.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 1111111111 1110010101 1111010101 01111100101 01111101001 1111010101 1111011101 1101010111 1111110011 01001011101 1101111111 11111100111 01110101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 593 |
Words | 121 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 462 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 118 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 24, 2023
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