Analysis of Encouraged
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Because you love me I have much achieved,
Had you despised me then I must have failed,
But since I knew you trusted and believed,
I could not disappoint you and so prevailed.
| Scheme | ABAB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 0111111101 1101111111 1111110001 1110110101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 182 |
| Words | 35 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4 |
| Lines Amount | 4 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 138 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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