This is an analysis of The Fount Of Tears by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
All hot and grimy from the road,
Dust gray from arduous years,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abaB cdcd bcbc bXbX ededXcbcB
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 11110001 1101000 11111111 010101 01010011 110111 11010101 111001 11011101 110100 11010111 010111 11111101 111111 11010101 111110 10110111 110101 11010101 110101 11110111 100100 11111111 010101
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
