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

Over the fields we go, through the sweets of the purple clover,
That letters a message for us as for every vagrant rover;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aaaa bbXX aabb ccbb aadd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100111101001010 11001011111001010 0110110110101110 10011010101110 100100111010110 1001011110110 100100110010110 1011011001010 0101101101011110 100101001011110 011110110111010 1011001101011110 01010111010010 111111110101010 01010011101001110 1011110011010 100111101001010 0100101011111010 10011101001011 1001010010010111
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 20

Repeated words/phrases

us, of, and

Anaphora

other

Epiphora

us