Analysis of Over The Hills
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Over the hills and the valleys of dreaming
Slowly I take my way.
Life is the night with its dream-visions teeming,
Death is the waking at day.
Down thro' the dales and the bowers of loving,
Singing, I roam afar.
Daytime or night-time, I constantly roving,--
Dearest one, thou art my star.
| Scheme | ABAB ACAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 10010010110 101111 11011111010 1101011 11010010110 101101 1111110010 1011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 289 |
| Words | 55 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 111 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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