This is an analysis of The Forest Path by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Oh, the charm of idle dreaming
Where the dappled shadows dance,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab acac dede afaf ghgh gXgX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 10101010 1010111 101010110 0010101 10001010 1110111 1110110 1011101 10111010 0011111 11101110 11011001 11101110 1110111 11101110 0010101 11101010 0010101 10101010 101100 11101110 1011100 11111010 1010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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