This is an analysis of Dirge by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Boys and girls that held her dear,
Do your weeping now;…
Browse poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AbA bcb cdcXdAA
- Stanza lengths: 3,3,7,
- Metre: 1111101 11101 1110011 10101001 101001 1011101 1110111 11101 1011101 1010101 1111101 1110011
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 12
Anaphora
for