Analysis of Colors



A purple sound comes humming
In a yellow dawn's full bloom.
Red eyes read the rising
Of another marbled moon.
And the jagged, blinding whiteness
That crowned the sightless night
Sleeps above blue heaven
And the rainbow's prism light.
Green life lifts and stretches.
Aqua waves anoint the shore.
Brown bodies kneel and kiss the earth.
Black yields to blue once more.


Scheme ABACDEFEGHIH
Poetic Form
Metre 0101110 0010111 111010 1010101 0011010 11011 101110 001101 111010 1010101 11010101 111111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 354
Words 62
Sentences 7
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12
Lines Amount 12
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 294
Words per stanza (avg) 62
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Submitted by lindam.30040 on May 02, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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