This is an analysis of The Dove by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Out of the sunshine and out of the heat,
Out of the dust of the grimy street,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aabb ccaa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,
- Metre: 1001111001 100100101 01101001001 10110100111 1111011111 1101001001 11111011111 101101001011
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 2
- Lines: 8
Repeated words/phrases
of, out, my, i
Anaphora
out