Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know by Edna St. Vincent Millay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know that begins with:

Here is a wound that never will heal, I know,
Being wrought not of a dearness and a death,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacdcdcd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10011100111 10110010101 1001110101 11010100101 0111110111 1111010101 0101011101 1011000111 1101010101 1101010101 1101110101 0111000101 1101110001 0111010011
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 591
  • Average number of words per stanza: 116
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 41 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, that, should are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word that is repeated.

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