This is an analysis of In Lovers' Lane by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

I know a place for loitering feet
Deep in the valley where the breeze…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbb XcXc ddad Xebe fdbd fXXX Xbdb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110111001 10010101 110001001 11011100 110100111 11110101 01001101 1010111 01011101 101100101 11110101 11110111 11111111 11000101 00111101 11011101 110010001 11010101 11010101 11010101 11111101 101101001 01010101 11010100 111101001 01011111 011100111 11111101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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