This is an analysis of the poem Lilac And Gold And Green that begins with:

Lilac and gold and green!
Those are the colours I love the best,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Ababccb dcdceec Afafccf
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,7,7,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: rima
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111111 110101101 11100111 10100111101 101010111 110101101 101100111 111111 100101101 11000111 100101101 11111011110 1101111110 101101101 111111 11110101101 1111001111 110101111 100100101 110001101 1110111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 3
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 270
  • Average number of words per stanza: 54
  • Amount of lines: 21
  • Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 8
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, in, of, my, for are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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

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