This is an analysis of At Nightfall by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
The dark is coming o'er the world, my playmate,
And the fields where poplars stand are very still,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb cdXd aeXe Xfaf aded Xeae
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 010101001111 10111011101 111010110010 11101010101 01111101011 00100010111 111111101010 00101010111 01110111111 10101010101 01101111001 10101010101 01111111110 1111010111 111011101011 00101011011 01010101111 10111010111 111010111011 11111110011 01001101110 0101010101 101011111011 11111110101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
we
Anaphora
we, the
