This is an analysis of Life by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Acrust of bread and a corner to sleep in,
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aabbC ddeeC
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,
  • Metre: 10011010010 001011110010 0101001010 11001101110 1101 01101011110 001011010011 1111011110 101001001110 1101
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10

Repeated words/phrases

to, and, of

Anaphora

a, and

Epiphora

in