Analysis of Night Of Love

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



THE moon has left the sky, love,
The stars are hiding now,
And frowning on the world, love,
Night bares her sable brow.
The snow is on the ground, love,
And cold and keen the air is.
I'm singing here to you, love;
You're dreaming there in Paris.
But this is Nature's law, love,
Though just it may not seem,
That men should wake to sing, love;
While maidens sleep and dream.
Them care may not molest, love,
Nor stir them from their slumbers,
Though midnight find the swain, love.
Still halting o'er his numbers.
I watch the rosy dawn, love,
Come stealing up the east,
While all things round rejoice, love,
That Night her reign has ceased.
The lark will soon be heard, love,
And on his way be winging;
When Nature's poets wake, love,
Why should a man be singing?


Scheme ABABACADAEAEACAFAGAGAHAH
Poetic Form
Metre 0111011 011101 0101011 110101 0111011 0101011 1101111 1101010 1111011 111111 1111111 110101 1111011 111111 111011 11010110 1101011 110101 1111011 110111 0111111 0111110 1101011 1101110
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 746
Words 144
Sentences 9
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 578
Words per stanza (avg) 142
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Modified on March 23, 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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