This is an analysis of The Lily Of The Valley by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
SWEETEST of the flowers a-blooming
In the fragrant vernal days…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcbdeXecfXfebabghchgidiefcf
- Stanza lengths: 28,
- Metre: 100010010 0010101 00100010 0010101 11101010 10101010 1111001 1001110010 10100010 0010011 11101110 0010101 11101010 1010111 11101010 0010001 00100010 1111111 10111010 1110111 10101010 1010101 11101101 1110101 10100110 0010101 10111010 0010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 28
Repeated words/phrases
in, and
Anaphora
in, does
