Analysis of Once on a Golden Day
Mathilde Blind 1841 (Mannheim) – 1896 (London)
Once on a golden day,
In the golden month of May,
I gave my heart away--
Little birds were singing.
I culled my heart in truth,
Wet with the dews of youth,
For love to take, forsooth--
Little flowers were springing.
Love sweetly laughed at this,
And between kiss and kiss
Fled with my heart in his:
Winds warmly blowing.
And with his sun and shower
Love kept my heart in flower,
As in the greenest bower
Rose richly glowing.
Till, worn at evensong,
Love dropped my heart among
Stones by the way ere long;
Misprizèd token.
There in the wind and rain,
Trampled and rent in twain,
Ne'er to be whole again,
My heart lies broken.
| Scheme | AAAB CCCB DDXB EEEB BXXF GGXF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 110101 0010111 111101 101010 111101 110111 11111 1010010 110111 001101 111101 11010 0111010 1111010 1001010 11010 1111 111101 110111 1110 100101 100101 111101 11110 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 633 |
| Words | 119 |
| Sentences | 7 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 24 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 20 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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