Analysis of To A Violet Found On All Saint's Day
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Belated wanderer of the ways of spring,
Lost in the chill of grim November rain,
Would I could read the message that you bring
And find in it the antidote for pain.
Does some sad spirit out beyond the day,
Far looking to the hours forever dead,
Send you a tender offering to lay
Upon the grave of us, the living dead?
Or does some brighter spirit, unforlorn,
Send you, my little sister of the wood,
To say to some one on a cloudful morn,
'Life lives through death, my brother, all is good?'
With meditative hearts the others go
The memory of their dead to dress anew.
But, sister mine, bide here that I may know,
Life grows, through death, as beautiful as you.
Scheme | ABAB CDCD BEXE FGFG |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain |
Metre | 01010010111 1001110101 1111010111 010101011 1111010101 11010100101 1101010011 0101110101 11110101 1111010101 111111011 1111110111 110010101 01001111101 1101111111 1111110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 653 |
Words | 128 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 128 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 31 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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