This is an analysis of The Congressional Library by Amy Lowell.

The earth is a colored thing.
See the red clays, and the umbers and salt greasy of the mountains;…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abbbcdbbbbdeeffcgehcicibijhXgeeeX hXcdkdijidjbbiXkXbeXkbXiajhai
  • Stanza lengths: 33,29,
  • Metre: 0100101 1011101011100010 10101100101111 01111101111 010110 101010100100100 01101010110110 010010111010 01010100110 01011101101110 0101111101000 11010101111111 1010001001 111 1111 10100101 01010 0110101 0111101 01010111 01010111 01111101 1111 1001101 1000001 10010 1100010101 1101 1111 10101101111101101 11111101 11111001 11111110111 11010100111101 1001 1101011 01101 010010100 110100000 101011100 11010100010 101011100 101011000101 11010101010 10100101110 10101000010110 10100010101110001 000100 010110 01010101000 1010101011 100110010 01011000 01000100 011001 1001 101101 1001100 01010 01001110001 111110 100001101101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 2
  • Lines: 62

Repeated words/phrases

and, greens, of, flowers, at, all, color

Anaphora

see, the, of, and, a, color, this

Epiphora

remain, pillars

Anadiplosis

we, color