This is an analysis of The Hill Maples by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Here on a hill of the occident stand we shoulder to shoulder,
Comrades tried and true through a mighty swath of the years!…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abXb XbXb bcac XdXd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101001011110010 1111110101000 01111011110010010 1101010101011 0100111011111100 10101011100101 1101110001010011 1110110101001001 10100101111010 11011110100111 101010111110010 1001110100101 10010011010110110 1001110110111 11111111111110 11100101100001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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