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,…
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