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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