Sonnet Iii: Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth by Edna St. Vincent Millay: poem analysis

This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Iii: Mindful Of You The Sodden Earth that begins with:

Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring,
And all the flowers that in the springtime grow, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaabbacbcbcb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
  • Metre: 10010101001 11010100111 1101110101 1000111111 0101110101 1101101101 1111010101 1101101101 1111110101 1111011101 1101110001 0011110101 1101011111 1110110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 649
  • Average number of words per stanza: 119
  • 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; and, all, that are repeated.

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

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