Analysis of A Boy's Summer Song
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
'Tis fine to play
In the fragrant hay,
And romp on the golden load;
To ride old Jack
To the barn and back,
Or tramp by a shady road.
To pause and drink,
At a mossy brink;
Ah, that is the best of joy,
And so I say
On a summer's day,
What's so fine as being a boy? Ha, Ha!
With line and hook
By a babbling brook,
The fisherman's sport we ply;
And list the song
Of the feathered throng
That flit in the branches nigh.
At last we strip
For a quiet dip;
Ah, that is the best of joy.
For this I say
On a summer's day,
What's so fine as being a boy? Ha, Ha!
Scheme | aabccbddEaAFgghiihjjEaAF |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111 00101 0110101 1111 10101 1110101 1101 1011 1110111 0111 10101 1111100111 1101 101001 0100111 0101 10101 1100101 1111 10101 1110111 1111 10101 1111100111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 536 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 403 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 120 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 14, 2023
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