This is an analysis of Conscientious Objector by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I shall die, but
that is all that I shall do for Death.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XabcXdbaXe eXceab XXXcdaXX
  • Stanza lengths: 10,6,8,
  • Metre: 1111 101111111 11110011001 110101011 10011110010 10001010101010 11011010 111001 1111101 10111011 111110001 1011111011 001111101111 0111001 1111101111111 1111011 101110100011 10110010 111011 101110101011 11010010010 111010101 100111010110 11011011110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

i, he, in

Anaphora

i