Analysis of A Summer's Night
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THE night is dewy as a maiden's mouth,
The skies are bright as are a maiden's eyes,
Soft as a maiden's breath the wind that flies
Up from the perfumed bosom of the South.
Like sentinels, the pines stand in the park;
And hither hastening, like rakes that roam,
With lamps to light their wayward footsteps home,
The fireflies come stagg'ring down the dark.
Scheme | ABBACDDC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011101011 011111011 110110111 1100110101 1100011001 0101001111 111111011 010111101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 355 |
Words | 66 |
Sentences | 3 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 278 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 64 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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