Analysis of A Winter Dawn
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Above the marge of night a star still shines,
And on the frosty hills the sombre pines
Harbor an eerie wind that crooneth low
Over the glimmering wastes of virgin snow.
Through the pale arch of orient the morn
Comes in a milk-white splendor newly-born,
A sword of crimson cuts in twain the gray
Banners of shadow hosts, and lo, the day!
| Scheme | AABB CCDD |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0101110111 010101011 101101111 10010011101 101111001 1001110101 0111010101 101110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 341 |
| Words | 64 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 08, 2023
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