This is an analysis of A Frolic by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
SWING yo' lady roun' an' roun',
Do de bes' you know;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXXXbcb XDCDXaea XceccDCD
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
- Metre: 1110111 10111 1111100 11101 1111110 10111 1010101 111101 1111101 11101 10101011 10101 1110011 10101 1110111 10111 1110101 10111 1000101 11001 1110101 11101 10101011 10101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
an', to, you
