This is an analysis of The Monk's Walk by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
In this sombre garden close
What has come and passed, who knows?…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abcc ddee bbff gggg ggXc hhXi gggg ccjj iikk iigg llba
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 001101 1111111 1110111 1001101 1010101 1010111 1011111 1011101 1011111 1010101 1010111 1001101 1110111 1110111 1011101 1011101 1010101 1010101 10111010 10101100 1110011 1110101 01111010 1110101 1011111 1101101 00111001 1000101 1111101 1110100 11101010 11101010 1010101 1010111 1011101 0111101 0010101 1110101 1110111 1011101 1110011 10000101 1011111 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 44
Repeated words/phrases
what, no, and
Anaphora
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