Analysis of A Song (#2)
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THOU art the soul of a summer's day,
Thou art the breath of the rose.
But the summer is fled
And the rose is dead
Where are they gone, who knows, who knows?
Thou art the blood of my heart o' hearts,
Thou art my soul's repose,
But my heart grows numb
And my soul is dumb
Where art thou, love, who knows, who knows?
Thou art the hope of my after years —
Sun for my winter snows
But the years go by
'Neath a clouded sky.
Where shall we meet, who knows, who knows?
Scheme | ABCCBDBEEBFBGGB |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (47%) |
Metre | 110110101 1101101 101011 00111 11111111 110111111 111101 11111 01111 11111111 110111101 111101 10111 10101 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 457 |
Words | 98 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 15 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 345 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 96 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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