This is an analysis of The Wind by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
O, wind! what saw you in the South,
In lilied meadows fair and far?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cddd abcb ceXe
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11111001 01011111 11010101 11010101 11111001 01011111 11010101 01010111 11111001 11110101 11010101 01011101 11111001 11010111 11011101 10110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 4
- Lines: 16