This is an analysis of Sonnet 06: Bluebeard by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

This door you might not open, and you did;
So enter now, and see for what slight thing…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXXddddcc
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 0111110110 1101111111 1101101101 1101110100 0111110101 1111110001 11011111100 11011001100 1001101111 1011110111 1101011111 1001100101 1111010111 0101110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

you, no