Sonnet 04: Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth by Edna St. Vincent Millay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet 04: Not In This Chamber Only At My Birth that begins with:

Not in this chamber only at my birth—
When the long hours of that mysterious night...

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXbbaab cdceed
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,6,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Metre: 10010101110 101100101001 01010101010 1110110111 11111100111 1101110111 1011011101 1011010001 10111111010 01101101111 11101101010 1111111111 1101010011 0101110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 318
  • Average number of words per stanza: 60
  • Amount of lines: 14
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9

  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; in, so are repeated.

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

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