This is an analysis of the poem Once It Was The Colour Of Saying that begins with:

Once it was the colour of saying
Soaked my table the uglier side of a hill...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abbaXbcXddcab
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 13,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 101010010 111001001001 0011110111 10111101110 0101000101101 11010010101011 11100101101011 1111101111 1000101101 010111010101 101010101001 1110101010 11001111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 596
  • Average number of words per stanza: 118
  • Amount of lines: 13
  • Average number of symbols per line: 45 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of is repeated.

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  • summary of Once It Was The Colour Of Saying;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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