This is an analysis of the poem Satiemus that begins with:
What if I know thy speeches word by word?
And if thou knew'st I knew them wouldst thou speak?...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AXAaaXbXbaXaXcaXcaX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 19,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Metre: 1011110111 1011110111 1011110111 110111001011 1111110111 1011110101 1111010101 1111110100 1011010111 100010111 1111010101 1111110101 00111 1001110111 1111100101 1111110111 0111011111 1011110111 1111001100
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 827
- Average number of words per stanza: 160
- Amount of lines: 19
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; word, i, thou, if, as are repeated.
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