What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, -A
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain -B
Under my head till morning, but the rain -B
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh -A
Upon the glass and listen for reply, -A
And my heart there stirs a quiet pain -B
For unremembered lads that not again -B
Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. -A
Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, - C
Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, - D
Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: - E
I cannot say what loves have come and gone, - D
I only know that summer sang in me - C
A little while, that in me sings no more. - E
Edna St. Vincent Millay's poem "What my lips have kissed, and where, and why" is written in sonnet form. A sonnet has fourteen lines and is written in iambic pentameter. This particular sonnet is an Italian Sonnet with the rhyme scheme of a b b a a b b a in the first octave. In the following sestet, the rhyme scheme is c d e d c e.
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