This is an analysis of Realization by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

I smiled with skeptic mocking where they told me you were dead,
You of the airy laughter and lightly twinkling feet;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXaX bXbX caca
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 11010101111101 10010101101001 101011100111011 1011111011101110 110111000111010 1101110111101 11010101110001010 01110100111010 11111100110101 11011100011101 11110010110101 1111010111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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