This is an analysis of Forever by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
I HAD not known before
Forever was so long a word.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbXcccXcXcabXb
- Stanza lengths: 16,
- Metre: 111101 01011101 01100101 1111 110111 01111101 11111111 1111 010111 1001101 11111001 1111 111101 11011101 11101000 1111
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 16
Repeated words/phrases
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