This is an analysis of Chrismus On The Plantation by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
It was Chrismus Eve, I mind hit fu' a mighty gloomy day--
Bofe de weathah an' de people--not a one of us was gay;…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaXX bXXX aaaX aacc XXaa XXdd XXXX XXbX aXee
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 011011111010101 101010101010111 111111101011101110 1010110101010101 1110111010111111 1101011101110111 111010101111111 111011101011101 1111101100111011 101011101011111 11101110111111111 101110101110101 10101011011101 111010101001101 111110101111101 111010101011101 1110110101111101 1111111011111111 111110110111111 111011111111111 1010111101011101 1111101011011110 1111011101110101 111110101010101 111111101100111 111101011011101 10101010111101101 11111111111101110 11011101010101 11111101011111 11111101110111 111111100111101 11111110111101 11110111111111 11111101011101 11001111110100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
de, he, i, an', you, 's, to, we
Anaphora
he, an'
