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

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With Life and Death I walked when Love appeared,... full text

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  • Rhyme scheme: a bcbcaa X ababdd X bXXdXb X dedeaa a fafagg a hbXbgg X ijijjj X jkjkcc X lmlmkk h ededcc a dcdcdd X akakkX X XbhbXb X kdkdbb XXlklkee
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,1,6,8,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1 0111111101 1101110111 1101010111 1111010101 0111111101 010111 1 01111100111 1111111101 1111100101 0111110111 1101010111 010111 1 1001110101 0011100110 10010111110 1101010101 11110101000 111111 1 1111110101 0101110101 1111111101 0100010011 0011011111 100101 1 1100010001 0011010111 1101000101 1101010011 11110100010 01001010 1 1111001111 0101010101 01110101100 0101110101 1101001011010 1100010 1 11010000101 1100010011 11001000101 1101111101 0101010011 010011 1 1101011101 0111000101 1001010101 0101010101 0111010101 011101 1 1101010011 1101110011 11001101111 0101010101 1100010001 110101 1 0101011101 1101010111 11010100101 1111110101 01110011101 010111 1 1101010101 1111110101 1101111101 0101111111 11001100101 110101 1 1111110111 11000111101 11010101010 0101110001 1101001101 010100 1 0111110100 0101000111 0100111100 01110010001 11011101100 111111 1 1100111101 011100010001 11000101111 0100010101 1110110101 0101001 1 0111110001 1011111101 0111111111 1110010111 1101011111 110111
  • Amount of stanzas: 30
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 125
  • Average number of words per stanza: 23
  • Amount of lines: 105
  • Average number of symbols per line: 35 (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; of, how, thy, thee, they are repeated.

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  • summary of Hymn To Colour;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
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