This is an analysis of And You As Well Must Die, Belovèd Dust by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
And you as well must die, belovèd dust,
And all your beauty stand you in no stead;…
Browse poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXccd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 111111101 1111011011 0101010011 01001110101 0111000101 1011010111 1011110101 1001010101 11110110110 0101111001 0111110101 100010001010 01001110010 1110011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, this
Anaphora
and, this
