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

We told her that her far off shore was bleak and dour to view,
And that her sky was dull and mirk while ours was smiling blue.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaXX bbcX ccbX XXXX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 110101111111001 11011111111101 110101010010111 110101010111010 110111001101010 11011101101010 110101111001111 011001011101010 11010001111101 01000101110111 10101110101010111 110101010111010 11011101110110 11010101110001 10111110111011101 0100110111010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

her, and, we, that

Anaphora

we