This is an analysis of the poem Under Saturn that begins with:

DO not because this day I have grown saturnine
Imagine that lost love, inseparable from my thought... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XababcXccXcXbXbX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 16,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 110101111100 01011101000011 011111011111 111101010111 010111111111 100101110111 1101000111100 100100111101 100111111111 011111010100 111100111111011 010101100101 1111110111101 11010100011010 11100011101 1001110010111
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 824
  • Average number of words per stanza: 156
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 51 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 10
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.

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