This is an analysis of My Lady Of Castle Grand by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Gray is the palace where she dwells,
Grimly the poplars stand…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcB defe Xbfb agcg hfhX XdXX XiciXcbbB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 10010111 100101 11010111 1100101 111101001 110101 10011101 101111 1101000101 1001011 1100101101 01100101 1101001011 1101001 100100111 110101 100110101 1101101 10011101 110111 010100100 01001001 1101111111 100111 010011110 1100101 1101101101 1010101 101101111 0100101 1101100111 1100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 32
Repeated words/phrases
blue, her, and
Anaphora
blue, pale, the
