This is an analysis of For Little Things by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
Last night I looked across the hills
And through an arch of darkling pine…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcb Xded cfcf fgeg Xaga
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110101 11110101 11010101 110111 11111101 11010111 10010111 010101 01110101 01000101 11111101 111111 11010101 11111101 11010100 110111 11110100 010010101 11111101 010101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 20
Anaphora
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