This is an analysis of The Choice by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Life, come to me in no pale guise and ashen,
I care not for thee in such placid fashion!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbab ccddcd eefXef gghhgh
  • Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,6,
  • Metre: 11010111110 11111011010 111101 011111 11111111010 01011011001 10110101110 11110101110 1000101 110101 11010011110 11001101001 111000100110 01111100110 110101 110100 11001101110 1101111100 11111111110 01011111010 0110001 101111 100110110010 0111111101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

in, thy, with

Anaphora

i