Analysis of Toast to Dayton
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Love of home, sublimest passion
That the human heart can know!
Changeless still, though fate and fashion
Rise and fall and ebb and flow,
To the glory of our nation,
To the welfare of our state,
Let us all with veneration
Every effort consecrate.
And our city, shall we fail her?
Or desert her gracious cause?
Nay-with loyalty we hail her
And revere her righteous laws.
She shall ever claim our duty,
For she shines-the brightest gem
That has ever decked with beauty
Dear Ohio's diadem.
| Scheme | ABABACAC DXDXEFEF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111110 1010111 1111010 1010101 101011010 1011101 1111010 1001010 010101110 1100101 11100110 0010101 111011010 1110101 11101110 101010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 478 |
| Words | 88 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8, 8 |
| Lines Amount | 16 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 192 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 43 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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