This is an analysis of the poem Saturnian Cinema that begins with:

How many a new and strange neurosis
The film-producer vexes...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXab cccc bdXdXcaca
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,9,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 1100111010 0101010 1101001010 0111010 010101010 100011 1011001010 100101 100101010 110001 010111110 110101 101110110 110101 010100110 110101
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 115
  • Average number of words per stanza: 20
  • Amount of lines: 16
  • Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

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