Analysis of The Chase
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THE wind told the little leaves to hurry,
And chased them down the way,
While the mother tree laughed loud in glee,
For she thought her babes at play.
The cruel wind and the rain laughed loudly,
We'll bury them deep, they said,
And the old tree grieves, and the little leaves
Lie low, all chilled and dead.
| Scheme | ABABACDC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0110101110 011101 101011101 1110111 0101001110 1101111 0011100101 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 307 |
| Words | 60 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 30 |
| Words per line (avg) | 7 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 238 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 58 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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