Analysis of Love And Grief
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Out of my heart, one treach'rous winter's day,
I locked young Love and threw the key away.
Grief, wandering widely, found the key,
And hastened with it, straightway, back to me,
With Love beside him. He unlocked the door
And bade Love enter with him there and stay.
And so the twain abide for evermore.
| Scheme | AABBCAC |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 111111101 1111010101 110010101 010111111 1101110101 0111011101 010101110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 304 |
| Words | 57 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 7 |
| Lines Amount | 7 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 234 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 55 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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