This is an analysis of A Summer Day by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

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The dawn laughs out on orient hills…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bXbXccaaXa X ddeebbeebb X aaffccbbcc
  • Stanza lengths: 1,10,1,10,1,10,
  • Metre: 1 011111011 11000101 001011101 01010100 00110111 10110101 11010111 11010111 11111110 01110001 1 110101110 1101101110 111100101 00110001 11010101 110111001 11000101 01010101 11110101 11010001 1 10010111 0101011 11011101 11010101 101010111 11010111 111100101 010101001 0100111 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

her

Anaphora

the