This is an analysis of Colours by Katharine Tynan.
Blues and greens are my delight
Set in garlands of the white.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa aa Xb cc Xc Xb dd ee ff ddXee
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 1111101 1010001 1110100 1110101 1110100 11101001 1010101 1011111 1010101 1111111 1000110 1010111 1110101 1110111 1111101 1011101 1011101 1111001 11100001 1010111 1111011 1010101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
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