This is an analysis of Harbor Dawn by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

There's a hush and stillness calm and deep,
For the waves have wooed all the winds to sleep…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaabb cXcXXdd bbbeeff
  • Stanza lengths: 7,7,7,
  • Metre: 101110111 1011110101 0011010111 11101011001 001011101 010110001 1010100101 010100111 01010110110 1110101011 100100111 0010101100 0011100101 1011100101 0011111111 010100101 100110111 11111111 111101111 101100111 1100110110
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 21

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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