Analysis of A Love Song
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Ah, love, my love is like a cry in the night,
A long, loud cry to the empty sky,
The cry of a man alone in the desert,
With hands uplifted, with parching lips,
Oh, rescue me, rescue me,
Thy form to mine arms,
The dew of thy lips to my mouth,
Dost thou hear me?--my call thro' the night?
Darling, I hear thee and answer,
Thy fountain am I,
All of the love of my soul will I bring to thee,
All of the pains of my being shall wring to thee,
Deep and forever the song of my loving shall sing to thee,
Ever and ever thro' day and thro' night shall I cling to thee.
Hearest thou the answer?
Darling, I come, I come.
Scheme | ABXX CXXA DBCCCCDX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111101001 011110101 01101010010 11100111 1101101 11111 01111111 111111101 10111010 11011 110111111111 110111101111 100100111101111 100101101111111 11010 101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 602 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 151 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 42 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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