This is an analysis of An Autumn Evening by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Dark hills against a hollow crocus sky
Scarfed with its crimson pennons, and below…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcc bdbdee fgfghh
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
  • Metre: 1101010101 10001010101 0101111101 10001110111 1101010101 0101110100 0101010101 0100010101 10010110001 0011100111 01010010101 11001110101 1111010111 1111000101 1001110110 01001010001 0111011111 1001010011
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 18

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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