This is an analysis of Growin' Gray by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
HELLO, ole man, you're a-gittin' gray,
An' it beats ole Ned to see the way…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabXbccaAAadddeeaAAafffffaA
- Stanza lengths: 27,
- Metre: 011110101 101110101 101101001011 1010011110 1110011111 110011111 1111111111 11111111 011110101 011110101 1010111101 110011101 11001101011 1110110101 11010111 11010101 01010101 011110101 011110101 111010101 110110101 110010111 11110111 1010001101 101011111 1011100101 011110101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 27
Repeated words/phrases
an'
Anaphora
hello, that, when
Epiphora
gray
Anadiplosis
old
