Analysis of Night, Dim Night



Night, dim night, and it rains, my love, it rains,
(Art thou dreaming of me, I wonder)
The trees are sad, and the wind complains,
Outside the rolling of the thunder,
And the beat against the panes.

Heart, my heart, thou art mournful in the rain,
(Are thy redolent lips a-quiver?)
My soul seeks thine, doth it seek in vain?
My love goes surging like a river,
Shall its tide bear naught save pain?


Scheme ABABA CBCBC
Poetic Form Etheree  (40%)
Metre 1110111111 111011110 011100101 110101010 0010101 1111110001 111001010 111111101 111101010 1111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 394
Words 77
Sentences 5
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 5
Lines Amount 10
Letters per line (avg) 30
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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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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