Analysis of To My Enemy
Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)
Let those who will of friendship sing,
And to its guerdon grateful be,
But I a lyric garland bring
To crown thee, O, mine enemy!
Thanks, endless thanks, to thee I owe
For that my lifelong journey through
Thine honest hate has done for me
What love perchance had failed to do.
I had not scaled such weary heights
But that I held thy scorn in fear,
And never keenest lure might match
The subtle goading of thy sneer.
Thine anger struck from me a fire
That purged all dull content away,
Our mortal strife to me has been
Unflagging spur from day to day.
And thus, while all the world may laud
The gifts of love and loyalty,
I lay my meed of gratitude
Before thy feet, mine enemy!
Scheme | ABAB XCBC XDXD XEXE XBXB |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 11111101 0111101 11010101 11111100 11011111 11111101 11011111 11011111 11111101 11111101 01010111 01010111 110111010 11111001 101011111 01011111 01110111 01110100 1111110 01111100 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 668 |
Words | 132 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 106 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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