This is an analysis of the poem They Tell Me Your Colour Is Blue that begins with:
They tell me your colour is blue
My life-breath feeds on your inspiring luminous pastures...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabb XXab XaXX XXbXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,5,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111001 111111010010010 11111111001 010100110110 0010111101000 1111011011111 1110001010111100110 011011110 1010110 0010011 110110101110 01111010110100 10010100101001 0011001010 1111011110101 01001001001010
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 144
- Average number of words per stanza: 26
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 44 (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; your is repeated.
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