Analysis of Howdy, Honey, Howdy

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



DO' a-stan'in' on a jar, fiah a-shinin'
      thoo,
Ol' folks drowsin' 'roun' de place,
     wide awake is Lou,
W'en I tap, she answah, an' I see
     huh 'mence to grin,
"Howdy, honey, howdy, won't you
     step right in?"


Scheme ABCDEADA
Poetic Form
Metre 1010101101 1 111111 10111 10011111111 1111 10101011 110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 226
Words 41
Sentences 2
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 17
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 138
Words per stanza (avg) 38
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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