Analysis of A Golden Day
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
I Found you and I lost you,
All on a gleaming day.
The day was filled with sunshine,
And the land was full of May.
A golden bird was singing
Its melody divine,
I found you and I loved you,
And all the world was mine.
I found you and I lost you,
All on a golden day,
But when I dream of you, dear,
It is always brimming May.
| Scheme | Abcb xcac Abxb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain |
| Metre | 1110111 110101 011111 0011111 0101110 110001 1110111 010111 1110111 110101 1111111 111101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 329 |
| Words | 72 |
| Sentences | 5 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 81 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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