This is an analysis of Sonnets 08: And You As Well Must Die, Beloved Dust by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
And you as well must die, beloved dust,
And all your beauty stand you in no stead;…
Browse poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdXccd
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111110101 1111011011 0101010011 01001110101 0111000101 1011010111 1011110101 1001010101 11110110110 0101111001 0111110101 100010001010 01001110010 11010011111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, this
Anaphora
and, this
