Analysis of To E. H. K.
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
ON THE RECEIPT OF A FAMILIAR POEM
To me, like hauntings of a vagrant breath
From some far forest which I once have known,
The perfume of this flower of verse is blown.
Tho' seemingly soul-blossoms faint to death,
Naught that with joy she bears e'er withereth.
So, tho' the pregnant years have come and flown,
Lives come and gone and altered like mine own,
This poem comes to me a shibboleth:
Brings sound of past communings to my ear,
Turns round the tide of time and bears me back
Along an old and long untraversed way;
Makes me forget this is a later year,
Makes me tread o'er a reminiscent track,
Half sad, half glad, to one forgotten day!
Scheme | X ABBAABBAXCDXCD |
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Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 10011001010 111110101 1111011111 00111101111 1100110111 111111101 1101011101 1101010111 110111010 11111111 1101110111 01110111 1101110101 1111000101 1111110101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 636 |
Words | 122 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 14 |
Lines Amount | 15 |
Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 251 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 60 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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