Analysis of colours paint a feeling



blue... shading to violet then purple
moon ascending
blue...shading to crimson then gold
sun descending
beyond my western horizon....dawn breaking


Scheme ABCBB
Poetic Form Tetractys  (60%)
Cinquain  (20%)
Lanturne  (20%)
Metre 1101100110 1010 111011 1010 01110110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 142
Words 22
Sentences 4
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 5
Lines Amount 5
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 20
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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