This is an analysis of Sonnet (Women Have Loved Before As I Love Now) by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Women have loved before as I love now;
At least, in lively chronicles of the past—…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXabcbcbdedeff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 1011011111 110101000010 0101010101 1101010101 10111000011 10010011001 1111010111 1101010001 1111010101 1100110101 1101010101 01000010001 11001010101 1011011101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Anaphora

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