Analysis of Kidnaped
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
I HELD my heart so far from harm,
I let it wander far and free
In mead and mart, without alarm,
Assured it must come back to me.
And all went well till on a day,
Learned Dr. Cupid wandered by
A search along our sylvan way
For some peculiar butterfly.
A flash of wings, a hurried drive,
A flutter and a short-lived flit;
This Scientist, as I am alive
Had seen my heart and captured it.
Right tightly now 'tis held among
The specimens that he has trapped,
And sings (Oh, love is ever young),
'Tis passing sweet to be kidnaped.
Scheme | ABABCDCDEFEFGHGH |
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Poetic Form | Traditional rhyme |
Metre | 11111111 11110101 01010101 01111111 01111101 1110101 010110101 1101010 01110101 01000111 110011101 11110101 11011101 01001111 01111101 1101111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 517 |
Words | 104 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 402 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 102 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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