This is an analysis of the poem Saturday's Child that begins with:
Some are teethed on a silver spoon,
With the stars strung for a rattle;... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abXbacacXdXdXXdXeXeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 20,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111010101 00111010 111110110 1100010 11100111 1100101 111100101 10111111 11110110 0100100 11001111 1110001 11111100 101110010 11110101 11011010 11011111 1101010 01010101 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 648
- Average number of words per stanza: 123
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
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