Analysis of In Lovers' Lane

Lucy Maud Montgomery 1874 (New London, Prince Edward Island) – 1942 (Toronto)



I know a place for loitering feet
Deep in the valley where the breeze
Makes melody in lichened boughs,
And murmurs low love-litanies.

There slender harebells nod and dream,
And pale wild roses offer up
The fragrance of their golden hearts,
As from some incense-brimméd cup.

It holds the sunshine sifted down
Softly through many a beechen screen,
Save where, by deeper woods embraced,
Cool shadows linger, dim and green.

And there my love and I may walk
And harken to the lapsing fall
Of unseen brooks and tender winds,
And wooing birds that sweetly call.

And every voice to her will say
What I repeat in dear refrain,
And eyes will meet with seeking eyes,
And hands will clasp in Lovers' Lane.

Come, sweet-heart, then, and we will stray
Adown that valley, lingering long,
Until the rose is wet with dew,
And robins come to evensong,

And woo each other, borrowing speech
Of love from winds and brooks and birds,
Until our sundered thoughts are one
And hearts have no more need of words.


Scheme XAXA XBXB XCXC DEXE FGXG FXXD XHXH
Poetic Form Quatrain 
Metre 110111001 10010101 1100011 01011100 1101101 01110101 01011101 11101111 1101101 10110011 11110101 1110101 01110111 01010101 10110101 01011101 010011011 11010101 01111101 01110101 11110111 11101001 01011111 010111 011101001 11110101 01101111 01111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 975
Words 177
Sentences 7
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 112
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 13, 2023

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

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