Analysis of On The Dedication Of Dorothy Hall
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
TUSKEGEE, ALA., APRIL 22, 1901.
Not to the midnight of the gloomy past,
Do we revert to-day; we look upon
The golden present and the future vast
Whose vistas show us visions of the dawn.
Nor shall the sorrows of departed years
The sweetness of our tranquil souls annoy,
The sunshine of our hopes dispels the tears,
And clears our eyes to see this later joy.
Not ever in the years that God hath given
Have we gone friendless down the thorny way,
Always the clouds of pregnant black were riven
By flashes from His own eternal day.
The women of a race should be its pride;
We glory in the strength our mothers had,
We glory that this strength was not denied
To labor bravely, nobly, and be glad.
God give to these within this temple here,
Clear vision of the dignity of toil,
That virtue in them may its blossoms rear
Unspotted, fragrant, from the lowly soil.
God bless the givers for their noble deed,
Shine on them with the mercy of Thy face,
Who come with open hearts to help and speed
The striving women of a struggling race.
Scheme | X AXAX XBXB CDCD EFEF XGXG HIHI |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 101010 110110101 1101111101 0101000101 1101110101 1101010101 01011010101 0111010101 01101111101 11000111110 111110101 1011101010 1101110101 0101011111 11000110101 1101111101 1101010011 1111011101 1101010011 1100111101 11010101 1101011101 1111010111 1111011101 01010101001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,010 |
Words | 194 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 25 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 115 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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