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,…

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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