This is an analysis of the poem Saturday Song that begins with:

They talk about gardens of roses,
And moonlight over the sea,... full text

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: abccbccdc Xaeeaffagaag ahahaiai fafaddjjdccd
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,12,8,12,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110110010 1111001 11011 11001 11110111 0100111 1111011 00101101001 101011001 110010100 11011011 11101 00101 10100101 10100111 0100111 10111110 10110111 10111 10111 101011011 10111101 010110110 10101101 11110010 11110101 11101101 101001101101 11100101 111001001 11111111 110101101 1111001 1110101 0101111 11101 11111 001001001 10101 1011 0101011
  • Amount of stanzas: 4
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 328
  • Average number of words per stanza: 64
  • Amount of lines: 41
  • 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.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, her are repeated.

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

    The author used the same word and at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.

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  • summary of Saturday Song;
  • central theme;
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  • history of its creation;
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