This is an analysis of Winter Song by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

OH, who would be sad tho' the sky be a-graying,
And meadow and woodlands are empty and bare;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababXcXcXddeeX
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 111011010010 11111111011 110110011110 01011101011 010010010010 11001001101 110011011110 11011101111 10 11010101 100100111 010110 111010 11011101010
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

the