This is an analysis of Echo Dell by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

In a lone valley fair and far,
Where many sweet beguilements are,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbcdcXdeedff ggaahahaceecff
  • Stanza lengths: 14,14,
  • Metre: 00110111 110110001 11010111 11011101 11110101 11100101 10110111 01011100 11011001 01010101 11010101 11101101 11010111 01010101 10011101 01011111 010011101 01110101 11110111 01010011 11011101 01011111 010011101 01010101 110100101 11010101 11111111 010010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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