Analysis of The Coloured Hours

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall 1883 (Gunnersbury, London) – 1922 (Vancouver)



GRAY hours have cities,
Green hours have rhymes
Of hearts grown loving
In old summertimes,
But the white hours have only
A cloud in the sky
And a star, bright and lonely,
To remember them by.

Gold hours have laughter,
Red hours have song
Drawn from lost fountains
Of beauty and wrong.
But the white hours,–O, tender
As rose-flakes they lie,
With youth's fallen splendour
To remember them by.


Scheme axxabcbC dexedcdC
Poetic Form
Metre 110110 11011 11110 011 10110110 01001 0011010 101011 110110 11011 11110 11001 10110110 11111 11101 101011
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 386
Words 72
Sentences 4
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 8
Lines Amount 16
Letters per line (avg) 19
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 155
Words per stanza (avg) 35
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall

Marjorie Lowry Christie Pickthall, was a Canadian writer who was born in England but lived in Canada from the time she was seven. She was once "thought to be the best Canadian poet of her generation." more…

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