This is an analysis of The Colored Band by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
W'EN de colo'ed ban' comes ma'chin' down de street,
Don't you people stan' daih starin'; lif' yo' feet!…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabbaccXXcdadAAaXXXeeXXeXaXa
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 101001110101 11101110111 1110101 11111001 10101110101 10101010001 10100010111 0010101 1010001 10101101101 111011001011101 11111110101 111010111110001 101001110101 101001110101 11101011001 1110111 1110101 11101110011 11100010101 110101011101 1010111 1010111 10101010101 101111101110001 10011010011 101100101011001 101001110101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
de, dey
Anaphora
w'en
Epiphora
street