This is an analysis of the poem Love Poem/Colour Supplement that begins with:
It was our first great war
And after the first successful sortie ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXXX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: cinquain
- Metre: 011111 1100101010 0001000101 1101001001 11000001001
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 182
- Average number of words per stanza: 30
- Amount of lines: 5
- Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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