Analysis of Changing Time
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THE cloud looked in at the window,
And said to the day, 'Be dark!'
And the roguish rain tapped hard on the pane,
To stifle the song of the lark.
The wind sprang up in the tree tops
And shrieked with a voice of death,
But the rough-voiced breeze, that shook the trees,
Was touched with a violet's breath.
Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101010 0110111 001111101 11001101 01110011 0110111 101111101 111011 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 304 |
Words | 62 |
Sentences | 4 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 8 |
Lines Amount | 8 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 232 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 59 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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