Analysis of Winter's Approach

Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906



DE sun hit shine an' de win' hit blow,
Ol' Brer Rabbit be a-layin' low,
He know dat de wintah time a-comin',
De huntah man he walk an' wait,
He walk right by Brer Rabbit's gate —
He know —
De dog he lick his sliverin' chop,
An' he tongue 'gin' his mouf go flop, flop—
He —
He rub his nose fu' to clah his scent
So's to tell w'ich way dat cotton-tail went,
He —
De huntah's wife she set an' spin
A good wahm coat fu' to wrop him in
She —
She look at de skillet an' she smile, oh my!
An' ol' Brer Rabbit got to sholy fly.


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Poetic Form
Metre 111111111 11101011 11111101 1111111 1111111 11 1111111 111111111 1 111111111 1111001111011 1 1111111 011111110 1 11111011111 111101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 528
Words 115
Sentences 3
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 17
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 22
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 368
Words per stanza (avg) 113
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Modified on March 05, 2023

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar was a seminal American poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries Dunbar gained national recognition for his 1896 Lyrics of a Lowly Life one poem in the collection being Ode to Ethiopia more…

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