This is an analysis of the poem Colour that begins with:

The lovely things that I have watched unthinking,
Unknowing, day by day,...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcXc bdbd XXbe Xaca abXb dXXX Xede
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 01011111010 010111 11111111010 101101 11011111110 1101001 11110101010 110101 11011111110 101101 10010111110 010101 11001111010 1101010 01011111111 101101 1101011100 101101 01110001010 010101 011101111011 011111 10111101011 11111 10111111110 101111 11000111111 110111 10011101010 111111 10011111010 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 8
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
  • Average number of words per stanza: 27
  • Amount of lines: 32
  • Average number of symbols per line: 36 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 7
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; that, and, to, who are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words that, and, there are repeated.

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Colour;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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