Analysis of Till The Wind Gets Right
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
OH the breeze is blowin' balmy
And the sun is in a haze;
There's a cloud jest givin' coolness,
To the laziest of days.
There are crowds upon the lakeside,
But the fish refuse to bite,
So I'll wait and go a-fishin'
When the wind gets right.
Now my boat tugs at her anchor,
Eager now to kiss the spray,
While the little waves are callin'
Drowsy sailor come away,
There's a harbor for the happy,
And its sheen is just in sight,
But I won't set sail to get there,
Till the wind gets right.
That's my trouble, too, I reckon,
I've been waitin' all too long,
Tho' the days were always
Still the wind is always wrong.
An' when Gabriel blows his trumpet,
In the day o' in the night,
I will still be found waitin',
Till the wind gets right.
Scheme | abcbdefeghfhaeiEfjbjkefE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1011110 0011001 1011110 1010011 1110101 1010111 1110101 10111 11111010 1011101 1010111 1010101 10101010 0111101 11111111 10111 11101110 111111 10101 101111 111001110 0011001 111111 10111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 715 |
Words | 145 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 24 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 550 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 143 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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