This is an analysis of the poem Red Is The Color Of Blood that begins with:
Red is the color of blood, and I will seek it:
I have sought it in the grass. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abc dcecabc fgg dcgchh fci aji bbaB jdkdXd cclml lhkXdee fdcfcXbbmB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 3,7,3,6,3,3,4,6,5,7,10,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 100100111010 1110001 000100111111 001010011010 111001 0100100100101 1111001 11010111010 10010 11000101010 1011101001010 110001001 11110111 10010100111 111001011 0010100111010 1111101101 100101 1111100111101 11001100 11111001010 011101 101100110010 011111111010 1111010111 111011001010 1110011 11011001010 1111010101 01010111110 11010111011 1111110 1011110101 1111110101 10110100101 00010111010 110100101010 1110000101 100001111010 00100101 01010101011 111111 1111101100110 111010010 01101 10010101111 101101 1111110111 10101010111 110101 11011101101 1111110111 11101111010 111011 1101011010110 1111010101
- Amount of stanzas: 12
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 199
- Average number of words per stanza: 37
- Amount of lines: 56
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it, of, i, think, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words it, i are repeated.
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