This is an analysis of In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Oh, summer has clothed the earth
In a cloak from the loom of the sun!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba cded Xbab afdf eggX agXg ccec ahfh
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1101101 001001001 1010100111 10110101 11101001 10100111 0010110101 00100111 1100101 11111001 1010100111 00101101 1100101 1100101 1011100111 1011101 1100101 00100111 01100101111 10010010 1111001 1111001 1010111111 1011101 11001001 0100101 001011101 1100101 1110111 11110101 1111100101 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, as
Anaphora
and, with, if
