This is an analysis of While The Fates Sleep by Lucy Maud Montgomery.

Come, let us to the sunways of the west,
Hasten, while crystal dews the rose-cups fill,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdec fgfghbbh deddiggi
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 1110010001 1011010111 1111010111 10100111 1001110101 1111100101 1101001100 101101 0101000101 0011010101 0101011101 100111 0101110111 1100010101 1111010111 011101 1111110001 1011111100 1111111011 101100 1111010101 01010101001 1111110101 010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

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