This is an analysis of Recuerdo by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
We were very tired, we were very merry --
We had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: AabbccAAddee AAeeff
- Stanza lengths: 12,6,
- Metre: 101010101010 1111111101010 01111111010 111000101101010 11101110101 101011010111 101010101010 111111111010 11111011101 00100111111 1011110111 101110010001 101010101010 111111111010 111010100001101 1101010110011 111101101010101 1110111011111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
we, and
Anaphora
we, and