Analysis of What Is Pink?
Christina Georgina Rossetti 1830 (London) – 1894 (London)
What is pink? a rose is pink
By the fountain's brink.
What is red? a poppy's red
In its barley bed.
What is blue? the sky is blue
Where the clouds float through.
What is white? a swan is white
Sailing in the light.
What is yellow? pears are yellow,
Rich and ripe and mellow.
What is green? the grass is green,
With small flowers between.
What is violet? clouds are violet
In the summer twilight.
What is orange? why, an orange,
Just an orange!
Scheme | AABBCCDDEEFFGDHH |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1110111 1011 1110101 01101 1110111 10111 1110111 10001 11101110 101010 1110111 111001 1110011100 00101 11101110 1110 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 451 |
Words | 87 |
Sentences | 17 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 16 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 21 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 337 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 85 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on May 02, 2023
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