Analysis of Sonnets 03: Not With Libations, But With Shouts And Laughter
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
Not with libations, but with shouts and laughter
We drenched the altars of Love's sacred grove,
Shaking to earth green fruits, impatient after
The launching of the colored moths of Love.
Love's proper myrtle and his mother's zone
We bound about our irreligious brows,
And fettered him with garlands of our own,
And spread a banquet in his frugal house.
Not yet the god has spoken; but I fear
Though we should break our bodies in his flame,
And pour our blood upon his altar, here
Henceforward is a grove without a name,
A pasture to the shaggy goats of Pan,
Whence flee forever a woman and a man.
| Scheme | ABACDEDFGHIHJJ |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111010 1101011101 10111101010 0101010111 1101001101 11011011 0101111101 0101001101 1101110111 11111010011 01101011101 11010101 0101010111 11010010001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 591 |
| Words | 111 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 14 |
| Lines Amount | 14 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 472 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 109 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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