This is an analysis of A Shore Twilight by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Lo, find we here when the ripe day is o'er
A kingdom of enchantment by the shore!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xa XX bX cc dd ee ff aaXbb
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
  • Metre: 11111011010 0100010101 0101010110 01001010101 1011010101 1001110100 1011110101 1101110111 1011101111 0101010101 1011010101 0101011100 11110100101 01010001001 1101011101 0111000101 1101010100 10011110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 18