This is an analysis of What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why (Sonnet Xliii) by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain…
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Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abbaabbaabcbac
- Stanza lengths: 14,
- Metre: 1111111111 1101011111 1011110101 0101011111 0101110101 1011110101 11000011101 0101111001 101010101 1111110111 1101110101 1101111111 1101110101 0101101111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
and, have
Anaphora
i
