Analysis of Equipment
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
With what thou gavest me, O Master,
I have wrought.
Such chances, such abilities,
To see the end was not for my poor eyes,
Thine was the impulse, thine the forming thought.
Ah, I have wrought,
And these sad hands have right to tell their story,
It was no hard up striving after glory,
Catching and losing, gaining and failing,
Raging me back at the world's raucous railing.
Simply and humbly from stone and from wood,
Wrought I the things that to thee might seem good.
If they are little, ah God! but the cost,
Who but thou knowest the all that is lost!
If they are few, is the workmanship true?
Try them and weigh me, whate'er be my due!
Scheme | XAXXA ABBCCDD XXEE |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11111110 111 11010100 1101111111 1101010101 1111 01111111110 11111101010 1001010010 10111011010 1001011011 1101111111 1111011101 111101111 111110101 1101110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 631 |
Words | 123 |
Sentences | 9 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 31 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 164 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 40 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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