This is an analysis of The Veteran by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
UNDERNEATH the autumn sky,
Haltingly, the lines go by.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaabbccddbbeeffggaaXheeiXffhhiiiijjiihh
- Stanza lengths: 40,
- Metre: 1010101 1000111 1110111 1111101 1111111 1011111 1011101 10010101 1110111 1011101 1011101 1010101 1011111 00100101 0110111 111001001 1110111 100001001 1011101 1011110 11101100 1111111 10010101 1000001 0110101 11110011 0110111 1010101 1110101 1110111 0110111 0110101 1011111 011001001 10011111 1010101 1011111 1011111 1010101 0010001
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 1
- Lines: 40
Repeated words/phrases
on, he, and, of