This is an analysis of To The Road by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

Cool is the wind, for the summer is waning,
Who 's for the road?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aBaBcccB aBXBaaab dBdbdddB
  • Stanza lengths: 8,8,8,
  • Metre: 10011010010 11101 110111011110 11101 11110011110 10010110010 00111010110 11101 11010010010 11101 10011010010 11101 10010110010 10010011110 10010011010 1101 110010011010 1001 11110011010 1001 11011110110 10111010010 10011110010 1001
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 24

Repeated words/phrases

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