This is an analysis of "There Is A Gold Light In Certain Old Paintings" by Donald Justice.
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There is a gold light in certain old paintings…
Browse poems by Donald Justice
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X XaXabb X Xcacdd X ceXeee
- Stanza lengths: 1,6,1,6,1,6,
- Metre: 1 10011010110 11010010011 00110011110 01010110111101 101101101001 100100100001 1 1001010010110 01101100111 1111110101 111111100101 1101101101 1010010110001 1 010101010111 110101100110 010011101001 11001111110 111110110010 10010110110010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 21
Repeated words/phrases
he, and
Anaphora
it
Epiphora
cross, prolong, existed
