This is an analysis of A Winter Dawn by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Above the marge of night a star still shines,
And on the frosty hills the sombre pines…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabb ccdd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,
  • Metre: 0101010111 110101011 1011011101 10010010101 1011010101 1001110101 0101010101 1001111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

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