This is an analysis of Feast by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I drank at every vine.
The last was like the first.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab bbbb acac
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111001 011101 110111 110011 1111001 1101001 110111 110011 10111 0010110 10111 0111110
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, and

Anaphora

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