Analysis of Morning

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



The mist has left the greening plain,
The dew-drops shine like fairy rain,
The coquette rose awakes again
Her lovely self adorning.

The Wind is hiding in the trees,
A sighing, soothing, laughing tease,
Until the rose says "Kiss me, please,"
'Tis morning, 'tis morning.

With staff in hand and careless-free,
The wanderer fares right jauntily,
For towns and houses are, thinks he,
For scorning, for scorning.
My soul is swift upon the wing,
And in its deeps a song I bring;
Come, Love, and we together sing,
"'Tis morning, 'tis morning."


Scheme aaxb cccB dddbbbbB
Poetic Form
Metre 01110101 01111101 011101 0101010 01110001 01010101 01011111 110110 11010101 010011100 11010111 1111 11110101 00110111 11010101 110110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 541
Words 96
Sentences 5
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 137
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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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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