This is an analysis of the poem Colours that begins with:

When your face came rising
above my crumpled life, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XXabcbdXddXedeXXXcea X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 111110 011101 0101110111 1110011010 111100101 1101110 0101000010001 1010101 11011101 01010111 100010011100 11010101 011101 010111001 1101010 110100011 0111110 11011111 1110100101 111111 0101110
  • Amount of stanzas: 2
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 342
  • Average number of words per stanza: 61
  • Amount of lines: 22
  • Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 6
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

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  • summary of Colours;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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