Poetry Analysis Form: "What lips..."
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1. Who is the speaker of the poem? *
2. Who is the audience for the poem? *
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3. Briefly, what situation is described in the poem? *
4. Use line numbers to indicate the poem's major thought divisions. *
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5. Form and Rhythm: The poem is a fourteen-line sonnet in iambic pentameter (five beats). Traditionally, sonnets are love poems. Is Millay following this traditional function of the sonnet or subverting it in some way? *
6. Rhyme: The poem's rhyme scheme is ABBAABBA for lines 1-8 and CDEDCE for lines 9-14. How does this change in the rhyme scheme reflect a move in the speaker's train of thought? *
7a. The poem uses a series of similar key words and phrases to refer to the speaker: "forgotten," "ghosts," "unremembered," "vanished," "cannot say." What do these words/phrases tell you about the speaker? *
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7b. Does the "quiet pain" the speaker feels "for unremembered lads" refer to heartbreak, guilt, remorse, sadness or what? *
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8a. What is the tone of the poem? *
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8b. From what key words or phrases did you deduce the poem's tone? *
10. Figures of speech/Symbol/ Allusion: Choose the category that best fits each word or phrase. *
Note 1: The phrase "lonely tree" fits two categories well, so it has been repeated. Note 2: If you do not know what "synecdoche" stands for, look it up.
Symbol
Metaphor 
Synecdoche
Personification
"What lips my lips have kissed" 
"the rain/ Is full of ghosts tonight"
"winter"
"lonely tree" (1)
"lonely tree" (2)
"birds"
"summer"
11. Based on all the above, what is poem's central viewpoint or insight about Love? *
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