Analysis of The Sand-Man
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
I KNOW a man
With face of tan,
But who is ever kind;
Whom girls and boys
Leave games and toys
Each eventide to find.
When day grows dim,
They watch for him,
He comes to place his claim;
He wears the crown
Of Dreaming-town;
The sand-man is his name.
When sparkling eyes
Droop sleepywise
And busy lips grow dumb;
When little heads
Nod toward the beds,
We know the sand-man's come.
Scheme | AABCCBDDEFFEGCHIIH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101 1111 111101 1101 1101 1111 1111 1111 111111 1101 1101 011111 1101 11 010111 1101 10101 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 369 |
Words | 74 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 18 |
Lines Amount | 18 |
Letters per line (avg) | 16 |
Words per line (avg) | 4 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 292 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 72 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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