Analysis of Response
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
When Phyllis sighs and from her eyes
The light dies out; my soul replies
With misery of deep-drawn breath,
E'en as it were at war with death.
When Phyllis smiles, her glance beguiles
My heart through love-lit woodland aisles,
And through the silence high and clear,
A wooing warbler's song I hear.
But if she frown, despair comes down,
I put me on my sack-cloth gown;
So frown not, Phyllis, lest I die,
But look on me with smile or sigh.
Scheme | AABB AXXX CCDD |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (67%) |
Metre | 11010101 01111101 11001111 111101111 1101011 1111111 01010101 0101111 11110111 11111111 11110111 11111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 434 |
Words | 83 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 27 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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