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.…

Browse poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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