This is an analysis of Emancipation by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Fling out your banners, your honors be bringing,
Raise to the ether your paeans of praise.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab acac adXd ebeb afaf ghgh ijij
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 11110110010 1001011001 110011110010 1011001011 11001110010 1101001001 11111110010 1001011001 11110110010 1101001011 10010111100 1111111000 11010110110 1101011011 11010110010 1001001001 10011111010 1111001001 0110110010010 1001001101 11110010010 1001101001 11111010110 1111101101 10011010011 1001101101 10110110011 1001001011
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
your, to, and
Anaphora
perched, never