Analysis of Golden Days.
There are days of summer sunshine,
Of warm and sunny weather,
When the hedge is full of hawthorn
And hills are glad with heather.
There are days of silent sadness,
Of frost, and snow, and rain,
When we fear that summer's gladness
Will never come again.
And now our songs are minor key,
And now in merry tune;
The windward side will change to lee,
And January to June.
Day and night the sun is shining,
Though he may hide his head;
Each cloud has a silver lining,
The flowers are asleep not dead.
Every day may have its playtime
Made bright by cheerful lays;
And life be one long Maytime,
A year of golden days.
Scheme | XAXA BXBX CDCD EFEF GHGH |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) Etheree (20%) |
Metre | 1111101 1101010 1011111 0111110 11111010 110101 1111101 110101 011011101 010101 01011111 010011 10101110 111111 11101010 01010111 10011111 111101 011111 011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 603 |
Words | 120 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 95 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on August 03, 2020
Modified on March 06, 2023
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