This is an analysis of the poem Colour that begins with:
There's colour in the woodlands as far as eye can reach,
Pale gold upon the elm-tree and bronze upon the beech; ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aaXbccbbddbb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Metre: 1100011111111 1101011110101 0101010010110 110001010111 11001110110101 0100010110101 1110110110101 110001010111 1101011110101 11010101011101 11110101111011 111101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 659
- Average number of words per stanza: 124
- Amount of lines: 12
- Average number of symbols per line: 54 (very long strings)
- Average number of words per line: 10
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, their, your are repeated.
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- summary of Colour;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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