This is an analysis of Limitations by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
EF you's only got de powah fe' to blow a little whistle,
Keep ermong de people wid de whistles.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXbXXaXXXccXXXaXX
- Stanza lengths: 18,
- Metre: 1110101010101010 1100101010 11111110111011010 0011101110 11101011111 010011010111 1111101011101010 101010101 1010101011101010 101011111 10101010111 110101011111 1111101010111010 111010101 101010111111101 111110001 110010111010 011101010101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
de, you