Analysis of Song

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



Wintah, summah, snow er shine,  
   Hit's all de same to me,
  Ef only I kin call you mine,
   An' keep you by my knee.
  Ha'dship, frolic, grief er caih,
   Content by night an' day,
  Ef only I kin see you whaih
   You wait beside de way.
  Livin', dyin', smiles er teahs,
  My soul will still be free,
 Ef only thoo de comin' yeahs
  You walk de worl' wid me.
 Bird-song, breeze-wail, chune er moan,
  What puny t'ings dey'll be,
 Ef w'en I's seemin' all erlone,
  I knows yo' hea't's wid me.


Scheme ABABCDEDFBFBGBAB
Poetic Form
Metre 11101 111111 11011111 111111 110101 101111 11011111 110111 11101 111111 1101111 111111 1111101 110111 110011111 111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 488
Words 93
Sentences 5
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 332
Words per stanza (avg) 91
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life one poem in the collection being Ode to Ethiopia more…

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