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

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The air is silent save where stirs…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a bbaaccddaa X aabXeeccaa X ffggeeccee
  • Stanza lengths: 1,10,1,10,1,10,
  • Metre: 1 01010111 010010101 01010101 11011101 110110001 11110011 1100101111 01010101 11011101 11000110 1 1100111001 010110001 010010101 110101000 01111101 01010111 11010011 01001101 10110111 11000101 1 11010111 010000101 11110101 10010101 01010111 11110101 11010101 110010101 11111101 100100101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 35

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