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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why. A sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay Kara Bennett pd. 6. A B B A A B B A C D E D C E. What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain

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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why

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  1. What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why A sonnet by Edna St. Vincent Millay Kara Bennett pd. 6

  2. A B B A A B B A C D E D C E What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry. Thus in the winter stands the lonely tree, Nor knows what birds have vanished one by one, Yet knows its boughs more silent than before: I cannot say what loves have come and gone, I only know that summer sang in me A little while, that in me sings no more.

  3. About this piece of poetry… • Sonnet • 14 lines

  4. Analysis

  5. Lines 1-5

  6. Lines 6-8

  7. Lines 9-11

  8. Lines 12-14

  9. Figurative Language

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