Analysis of The Quilting
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
DOLLY sits a-quilting by her mother, stitch by stich,
Gracious, how my pulses throb, how my fingers itch,
While I note her dainty waist and her slender hand,
As she matches this and that, she stitches strand by strand.
And I long to tell her Life's a quilt and I'm a patch;
Love will do the stitching if she'll only be my match.
| Scheme | AABBCC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Sestain |
| Metre | 1010101010111 101110111101 111010100101 1110101110111 0111101010101 1110101110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
| Characters | 331 |
| Words | 65 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 6 |
| Lines Amount | 6 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 42 |
| Words per line (avg) | 11 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 252 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 63 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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