Analysis of When All Is Done
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
When all is done, and my last word is said,
And ye who loved me murmur, 'He is dead,'
Let no one weep, for fear that I should know,
And sorrow too that ye should sorrow so.
When all is done and in the oozing clay,
Ye lay this cast-off hull of mine away,
Pray not for me, for, after long despair,
The quiet of the grave will be a prayer.
For I have suffered loss and grievous pain,
The hurts of hatred and the world's disdain,
And wounds so deep that love, well-tried and pure,
Had not the pow'r to ease them or to cure.
When all is done, say not my day is o'er,
And that thro' night I seek a dimmer shore:
Say rather that my morn has just begun,--
I greet the dawn and not a setting sun,
When all is done.
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1111011111 0111110111 1111111111 0101111101 1111000101 1111111101 1111110101 0101011101 1111010101 0111000101 0111111101 11011111111 11111111110 0111110101 1101111101 1101010101 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 697 |
Words | 150 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5 |
Lines Amount | 17 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 132 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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