This is an analysis of Night, Dim Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Night, dim night, and it rains, my love, it rains,
(Art thou dreaming of me, I wonder)…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababa cbcbc
  • Stanza lengths: 5,5,
  • Metre: 1111011101 111001110 011110101 110100010 1010101 1111110001 111001010 111110101 111101010 1011111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 10

Anaphora

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