This is an analysis of Being Young And Green by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Being Young and Green, I said in love's despite:
Never in the world will I to living wight…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabcbXXbc
  • Stanza lengths: 9,
  • Metre: 10111110101 10001010101 110111 0100 11010100011 00101100 11010 11101101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: ottava rima
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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