This is an analysis of A Color of the Sky by Tony Hoagland.
Windy today and I feel less than brilliant,
driving over the hills from work.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abccde fadXg gfgh XhdXf b dhicac gghi jdc Xjf fXdbeij
- Stanza lengths: 6,5,4,5,1,6,4,3,3,7,
- Metre: 10011111110 10100101 11011101 1111101 1011111010010 111010111010 1110110101 11011011011 11110101001101 110111010110 0110011100010 101001110111 0101011010101 11010100 0101010100 110101001110101 11011101 010101001000100110 10011 0111010 111100111001 11110101 1101110101 001110101 11111111 110101 1101 1111111100010 11110111100010 11111010 1100010001 110110010101 100110 01011101001 10100100 1010101 10110101 10111000101 110100110001 0010111 1010 110001 1101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 11
- Lines: 43
Repeated words/phrases
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Anaphora
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