This is an analysis of Despair by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
LET me close the eyes of my soul
That I may not see…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaaXbbXcc
- Stanza lengths: 9,
- Metre: 11101011 11111 1101111 11101011 11111 0111111 11101011 0110010 110110110
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 9
Repeated words/phrases
me, my