Analysis of I do but ask that you be always fair
Edna St. Vincent Millay 1892 (Rockland) – 1950 (Austerlitz)
I do but ask that you be always fair
That I forever may continue kind;
Knowing me what I am, you should not dare
To lapse from beauty ever, nor seek to bind
My alterable mood with lesser cords;
Weeping and such soft matters must invite
To further vagrancy; and bitter words
Chafe soon to irremediable flight,
Wherefore I pray you if you love me dearly,
Less dear to hold me than your own bright charms,
Whence it may fall that until death, or nearly,
I shall not move to struggle from your arms:
Fade if you must,--I would but bid you be
Like the sweet year, doing all things graciously.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 111111111 1101010101 1011111111 11110101111 1111101 1001110101 1101000101 111010001 1111111110 1111111111 11111011110 1111110111 1111111111 10111011100 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 595 |
Words | 114 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 461 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 111 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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