Memorial to D. C
Oh, loveliest throat of all sweet throats,Where now no more the music is,With hands that wrote you little notesI write you little elegies!
Words in this poem
- wrote v. i.
- To root with the snout. See 1st Root. [OE. wroten. See 1st Root.]
Definitions and etymologies from Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913.
About this text
Memorial to D. C is in the public domain. This text is taken from Poems, Project Gutenberg ebook #59167; the transcription's header, footer and licence were removed and nothing else was changed. You may copy, print and reuse it freely.
Cite as: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Memorial to D. C, in Poems (1923), text of Project Gutenberg ebook #59167, Laurel, https://laurelpoetry.com/poem/millay-poems/memorial-to-d-c.html, id L24383.
Form and metre
Memorial to D. C is 4 lines in a single stanza. It rhymes ABAB.
Measured by Laurel's pipeline, not copied from a handbook: how stress and metre are counted, how rhyme is lettered, how a drifted rhyme is found. Where the dictionary cannot confirm a rhyme the letter is withheld, not guessed.
Rhyme words, stanza by stanza
The word that ends each line, lettered by the rhyme it makes; a dash is a line whose rhyme the dictionary could not confirm.
- 1 ABAB throatsA · isB · notesA · elegiesB
Scansion, line by line
Each line with its syllable count and the stresses the words themselves fix: / stressed, ˘ unstressed, · a syllable the word leaves free and the metre decides. How this is done.
| Line | Syl. | Stress |
|---|---|---|
| Oh, loveliest throat of all sweet throats, | 9 | ········· |
| Where now no more the music is, | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| With hands that wrote you little notes | 8 | ·····/˘· |
| I write you little elegies! | 8 | ···/˘/˘˘ |
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