This is an analysis of God's World by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

O world, I cannot hold thee close enough!
   Thy winds, thy wide grey skies!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbXXaa cXbddcc
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,
  • Metre: 1111011101 111111 111111 1101011111 1111010111 0101010111 1111011101 1111010001 110110 110100 1101011111 1101110001 1101110111 110111111
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

thy

Anaphora

thy