Analysis of Colour
William Henry Ogilvie 1869 (Scotland) – 1963
There's colour in the woodlands as far as eye can reach,
Pale gold upon the elm-tree and bronze upon the beech;
To witch the world with beauty a hundred hues ally -
But bonniest is the scarlet when a Whip rides by.
On towers of brown and crimson, on roofs of royal gold
The banners of the autumn their splendid tints unfold,
And no one will their wonder, their magic lure deny -
Yet dearer is the scarlet when a Whip rides by.
Ah! Bright September woodlands, your magic only means
That summer’s life is ebbing on the bed your beauty screens;
Not all your painted pennons on all your towers so high
Can match one patch of scarlet when a whip rides by!
Scheme | AABBCCBBDDBB |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 11001111111 1101011010101 1101110010110 11101010111 11011010111101 0101010110101 0111110110101 110101010111 110101110101 11011101011101 1111011111011 111111010111 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 126 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 12 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 43 |
Words per line (avg) | 10 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 511 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 124 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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