This is an analysis of the poem The Coloured Hours that begins with:
GRAY hours have cities,
Green hours have rhymes... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aabXcdcD ebabedXD
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110 11011 01110 011000 10110110 01001 1011110 001001 110110 11011 10110 01011 1011010 11111 011010 001001
- Amount of stanzas: 2
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 195
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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