Before searching for mentor text, consider the ideas in these blogs: Three Reasons Literary Analysis Must be Authentic , Stop the Slaughter, Moving Writers: New Approach to Finding Authentic Mentors, and Literary Analysis Wrap Up.
Vicki Vinton in her blog, To Make a Prairie, suggests ways students can write about what they read.
Here's a link to another google site with mentor text for literary analysis.
Help me find more literary analysis that could be used as mentor text. The Epoch Times is a great resource but there must be more out there.
How about an analysis of "The Road Not Taken" that challenges the usual interpretation of Frost's poem?