Analysis of The Place Where The Rainbow Ends



THERE'S a fabulous story
Full of splendor and glory,
That Arabian legends transcends;
Of the wealth without measure,
The coffers of treasure,
At the place where the rainbow ends.
Oh, many have sought it,
And all would have bought it,
With the blood we so recklessly spend;
But none has uncovered,
The gold, nor discovered
The spot at the rainbow's end.
They have sought it in battle,
And e'en where the rattle
Of dice with man's blasphemy blends;
But howe'er persuasive,
It still proves evasive,
This place where the rainbow ends.
I own for my pleasure,
I yearn not for treasure,
Though gold has a power it lends;
And I have a notion,
To find without motion,
The place where the rainbow ends.
The pot may hold pottage,
The place be a cottage,
That a humble contentment defends,
Only joy fills its coffer,
But spite of the scoffer,
There's the place where the rainbow ends.
Where care shall be quiet,
And love shall run riot,
And I shall find wealth in my friends;
Then truce to the story,
Of riches and glory;
There's the place where the rainbow ends.


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010010 1110010 101001001 1010110 010110 1011011 110111 011111 101111001 111010 011010 011011 1111010 0111010 11111001 110010 111010 111011 111110 111110 11101011 011010 110110 011011 01111 011010 101001001 1011110 11101 1011011 111110 011110 01111011 111010 110010 1011011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,026
Words 191
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 36
Lines Amount 36
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 821
Words per stanza (avg) 189
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on April 15, 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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