This is an analysis of The Voice Of The Banjo by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic's way,
Sat an old man, bent and feeble, dusk of face, and hair of gray,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aaaX bbcc bbdd XXXX eeaa bbbX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 001110101010101 111111101011101 101110101011111 101110101010100 101000111011101 111010101011111 111010101010101 101010100010001 111010101010101 1010111011100101 101101101011111 0110101000011101 11101011111010110 101010111110101 101010101110111 1110101001010111 111100101010101 111010100010001 1111111000101101 101011100010001 101010111110101 1111100101111111 111111101011111 11110111001111001
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 24
Repeated words/phrases
and, of, be, us, let, you, could
Anaphora
let, and
