This is an analysis of A Golden Day by Paul Laurence Dunbar.

I Found you and I lost you,
All on a gleaming day.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb Xcac abXb
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111111 110101 0111011 1011101 0101110 010001 1111111 110111 1111111 110101 1111011 0011101
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

i, you