Analysis of The Meadow Lark
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THOUGH the winds be dank,
And the sky be sober,
And the grieving Day
In a mantle gray
Hath let her waiting maiden robe her, —
All the fields along
I can hear the song
Of the meadow lark,
As she flits and flutters,
And laughs at the thunder when it mutters.
O happy bird, of heart most gay
To sing when skies are gray!
When the clouds are full,
And the tempest master
Lets the loud winds sweep
From his bosom deep
Like heralds of some dire disaster,
Then the heart alone
To itself makes moan;
And the songs come slow,
While the tears fall fleeter,
And silence than song by far seems sweeter.
Oh, few are they along the way
Who sing when skies are gray!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 10111 001110 00101 00101 110101010 10101 11101 1011 111010 0110101110 11011111 111111 10111 001010 10111 11101 110111010 10101 10111 00111 10111 0101111110 11110101 111111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 639 |
Words | 130 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 507 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 128 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 01, 2023
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