This is an analysis of Down Stream by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Comrades, up! Let us row down stream in this first rare dawnlight,
While far in the clear north-west the late moon whitens and wanes;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba XbXb XcXc abXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11111111001110 11001110111011 011010111010110 001011100110011 010010111001110 10101001001011001 1111101011011010 1101101111001001 01110101011110 1111100101100111 10011101001000 10110010110111 1011010111011010 1011010010101 110100111111011 1010100101101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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