This is an analysis of Night by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

A pale enchanted moon is sinking low
Behind the dunes that fringe the shadowy lea,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab cdcd efef XeXe XgXg
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 0101010101 01011101001 1101011101 0101001 1101111101 1011010101 1101011001 100101 1111010101 1111011101 1111110111 110101 11010001000 0111110101 1000011000 011101 0101010011 11010100111 1100010001 110101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20