Analysis of A Song (#1)
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
ON a summer's day as I sat by a stream,
A dainty maid came by,
And she blessed my sight like a rosy dream,
And left me there to sigh, to sigh,
And left me there to sigh, to sigh.
On another day as I sat by the stream,
This maiden paused a while,
Then I made me bold as I told my dream,
She heard it with a smile, a smile,
She heard it with a smile, a smile.
Oh, the months have fled and the autumn's red,
The maid no more goes by;
For my dream came true and the maid I wed,
And now no more I sigh, I sigh,
And now no more I sigh.
| Scheme | abaBBacaCCdbdbb |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 10101111101 010111 0111110101 01111111 01111111 10101111101 110101 1111111111 11110101 11110101 1011100101 011111 1111100111 01111111 011111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 523 |
| Words | 121 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 15 |
| Lines Amount | 15 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 26 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 388 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 119 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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