On Edna Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”, in a style of Italian sonnet:
And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain
For unremembered lads that not again
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. (Line 6-8)
I only know that summer sang in me
A little while, that in me sings no more. (Line 13-14)
It is expressed in a sad tone, and sounds depressing at the end, indicating not only the love has gone, but the memory of love has also lost. The sad voice also brings the reader into a scene of something deep inside the reader’s heart, to recall earlier memory with such strong and powerful feelings and emotions, pain and cry, about the loss of love. The last words of “pain”, and “again” on line 6 and 7 both have the same rhyme to emphasize the reaction to the loss of love. Of the last two sentences on line 13 and 14, it has a comma to separate “a little while” and “that in me sings no more”, The comma is a short pause to read it slowly which enhances the sad tone to reveal the happiness has gone and it does not return any more.
