Analysis of Alexander Crummell--Dead
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Back to the breast of thy mother,
Child of the earth!
E'en her caress can not smother
What thou hast done.
Follow the trail of the westering sun
Over the earth.
Thy light and his were as one--
Sun, in thy worth.
Unto a nation whose sky was as night,
Camest thou, holily, bearing thy light:
And the dawn came,
In it thy fame
Flashed up in a flame.
Back to the breast of thy mother--
To rest.
Long hast thou striven;
Dared where the hills by the lightning of heaven were riven;
Go now, pure shriven.
Who shall come after thee, out of the clay--
Learned one and leader to show us the way?
Who shall rise up when the world gives the test?
Think thou no more of this--
Rest!
Scheme | Abaccbcbddeee Afcccggfxf |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11011110 1101 110011110 1111 10011011 1001 1101011 1011 1001011111 1111011 0011 0111 11001 11011110 11 11110 11011010110010 1111 1111011101 1101011101 1111101101 111111 1 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 655 |
Words | 134 |
Sentences | 11 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 13, 10 |
Lines Amount | 23 |
Letters per line (avg) | 22 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 254 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 66 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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