Vincent Millay's "Recuerdo" is rich in scenes of lighthearted romance. "We were very tired, we were very merry" (1), suggesting that the two were tired because of all the lighthearted and simple fun they were having, which was making them so merry (Miller). Millay's poem reads as if about to break into song, trying very hard to contain overpowering joy. The stanzas that make up this poem are three sestets with the last broken into what seems to be a quatrain and a couplet, although the entire poem can be looked at as all couplets. The rhyme scheme is aabbcc, aaddee, aaffgg. There is an airy breeziness to this poem. I can almost feel the exhilarating weariness of the friends on their watery venture, "We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry" (2). Each of the poem's stanzas begin with the same refrain, which establishes the mixture of exhilaration and fatigue that make Millay's artistic persona of freeness so compelling and enticing. .
Yet the dynamic of merriment through tiredness from the ferry ride comes back on itself: Once merry, the pair engage in more tiring behavior, "It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable / But we looked into the fire, we leaned across a table, / We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon;" (3-5). Reading and rereading this poem I can hear its rhythm, but the meter is not a simple matter. Because of the quick, happy flow of the poem, I would be inclined to identify the meter as anapestic tetrameter, though there are certainly many variations and a good number of iambic feet. .
The situation and setting of the poem is that of two people (perhaps they are lovers, or perhaps they are just good friends) enjoying an all night adventure riding the ferry back and forth in New York City, or a city in New England somewhere. There are perhaps traces of sensual engagement, "You ate an apple, and I ate a pear" (9), man, woman, Adam, Eve.
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