Analysis of Day
Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 (Dayton) – 1906
THE gray dawn on the mountain top
Is slow to pass away.
Still lays him by in sluggish dreams,
The golden God of day.
And then a light along the hills,
Your laughter silvery gay;
The Sun God wakes, a bluebird trills,
You come and it is day.
| Scheme | ABCBDBCB |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 01110101 111101 11110101 010111 01010101 1101001 0111011 110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 240 |
| Words | 50 |
| Sentences | 4 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 23 |
| Words per line (avg) | 6 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 184 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 48 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 16, 2023
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