Analysis of Invitation to Love
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
Come when the nights are bright with stars
Or when the moon is mellow;
Come when the sun his golden bars
Drops on the hay-field yellow.
Come in the twilight soft and gray,
Come in the night or come in the day,
Come, O love, whene'er you may,
And you are welcome, welcome.
You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,
You are soft as the nesting dove.
Come to my heart and bring it rest
As the bird flies home to its welcome nest.
Come when my heart is full of grief
Or when my heart is merry;
Come with the falling of the leaf
Or with the redd'ning cherry.
Come when the year's first blossom blows,
Come when the summer gleams and glows,
Come with the winter's drifting snows,
And you are welcome, welcome.
Scheme | ababcccD eeff ghghiiiD |
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Poetic Form | Etheree (30%) |
Metre | 11011111 1101110 11011101 1101110 1001101 100111001 111111 0111010 1111111 11110101 11110111 1011111101 11111111 1111110 11010101 1101110 11011101 11010101 11010101 0111010 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 701 |
Words | 137 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 4, 8 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 178 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 45 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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