This is an analysis of Fontaine, Je Ne Boirai Pas De Ton Eau! by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I know I might have lived in such a way
As to have suffered only pain:…

Browse poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcdaXdXbcb eebXfXXef
  • Stanza lengths: 11,9,
  • Metre: 1111110101 10110101 101111 1101010 10011101111001 011100 10111100111010 11110110101100 1 0111111101 100001001 10001110110011001 101100111 10111000101001110 10 110100101 0100011000100010 10 0111111101101 1111100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

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