This is an analysis of The Gourd by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
In the heavy earth the miner
Toiled and laboured day by day,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbXdad efgfecXc fcXcXdhd XXgbfdad dhghXdad
- Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,8,8,
- Metre: 00101010 11100111 10001010 1010101 10101110 1011101 10111010 0010101 10101010 1010101 10001010 1010101 10101010 10100101 10101010 10010101 00101011 0100111 01101011 0110101 11101110 1010001 11101010 1111111 10100110 0010101 10101010 0110101 101010100 1010101 011101110 0011101 10101111 1010101 11101010 00101001 10101010 1010101 111010010 0011101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 40
Anaphora
without, give
