This is an analysis of Final Poem by Alice Duer Miller.

The consciousness of my mortality
Which used to blind and limit all my life…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbacddcecfecf
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0100010100 1101110111 1111111011 1001010100 1101011111 0111011001 0101010101 0110001101000 1111000101 11010101001 1111011101 1111111101 1111110111 1101010111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14