Analysis of Twilight
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
'Twixt a smile and a tear,
'Twixt a song and a sigh,
'Twixt the day and the dark,
When the night draweth nigh.
Ah, sunshine may fade
From the heavens above,
No twilight have we
To the day of our love.
| Scheme | ABCBDEFE |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 101001 101001 101001 10111 1111 101001 1111 1011101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 201 |
| Words | 43 |
| Sentences | 3 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 19 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 150 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 41 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 10, 2023
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