This is an analysis of When The Dark Comes Down by Lucy Maud Montgomery.
When the dark comes down, oh, the wind is on the sea
With lisping laugh and whimper to the red reef's threnody,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbbcc ddbbcc eeaXcc
- Stanza lengths: 6,6,6,
- Metre: 101111010101 01011100011100 01110101010101 0100111001010101 11111111110111 111111010111 101111010101 110101011100101 11010111010101 01110111011101 11110101010101 011101010111 101111010101 11000101110101 11000111110101 010100100010100 11110101111101 11001001010111
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
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