Analysis of Evening
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
The moon begins her stately ride
Across the summer sky;
The happy wavelets lash the shore,--
The tide is rising high.
Beneath some friendly blade of grass
The lazy beetle cowers;
The coffers of the air are filled
With offerings from the flowers.
And slowly buzzing o'er my head
A swallow wings her flight;
I hear the weary plowman sing
As falls the restful night.
Scheme | XAXA BBXX XCXC |
---|---|
Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 01010101 010101 0101101 011101 01110111 010101 01010111 11001010 010101011 010101 11010101 110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 360 |
Words | 68 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 96 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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