Analysis of Equipment

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



With what thou gavest me, O Master,
I have wrought.
Such chances, such abilities,
To see the end was not for my poor eyes,
Thine was the impulse, thine the forming thought.

Ah, I have wrought,
And these sad hands have right to tell their story,
It was no hard up striving after glory,
Catching and losing, gaining and failing,
Raging me back at the world's raucous railing.
Simply and humbly from stone and from wood,
Wrought I the things that to thee might seem good.

If they are little, ah God! but the cost,
Who but thou knowest the all that is lost!
If they are few, is the workmanship true?
Try them and weigh me, whate'er be my due!


Scheme XAXXA ABBCCDD XXEE
Poetic Form
Metre 11111110 111 11010100 1101111111 1101010101 1111 01111111110 11111101010 1001010010 10111011010 1001011011 1101111111 1111011101 111101111 111110101 1101110111
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 631
Words 123
Sentences 9
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 7, 4
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 31
Words per line (avg) 8
Letters per stanza (avg) 164
Words per stanza (avg) 40
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life one poem in the collection being Ode to Ethiopia more…

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