Analysis of Diplomacy

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



TELL your love where the roses blow,
And the hearts of the lilies quiver,
Not in the city's gleam and glow,
But down by a half-sunned river.
Not in the crowded ball-room's glare,
That would be fatal, Marie, Marie,
How can she answer you then and there?
So come then and stroll with me, my dear,
Down where the birds call, Marie, Marie.


Scheme ABABCDCED
Poetic Form Nonet (33%)
Metre 11110101 001101010 10010101 11101110 10010111 111100101 111101101 111011111 110110101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 335
Words 65
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 9
Lines Amount 9
Letters per line (avg) 28
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 255
Words per stanza (avg) 63
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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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