This is an analysis of The Lesson by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
MY cot was down by a cypress grove,
And I sat by my window the whole night long,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdbcbbeXXfeaegegedhfh
- Stanza lengths: 24,
- Metre: 111110101 11111100111 111100111 01011001 1110111111 11111011101 0111101111 0111101 11011100111 011001101 1111111101 1010101 1100100111 11110111 1100100101 0101111 1110110101 001010101 11110101111 1110101 11011101 100111101 010010101 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, my
Anaphora
and, of
