This is an analysis of The Goose-Girl by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Spring rides no horses down the hill,
But comes on foot, a goose-girl still.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbccXXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 10,
  • Metre: 011110101 11110111 110100110 11010101 010110111 110010111 11011000 01010101 110111010 1011111010
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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