Poem Analysis of Satire V by John Donne for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem Satire V that begins with:

Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they
Whom any pity warmes; He which did lay ... full text

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Rhyme scheme: aabbXXacddeefXggfXhhhXiXaafegXacXXhhggXXffaaggcXXhaaaaiiggXXaajjddaaXhXaXXfXggaaXaajjef
Stanza lengths (in strings): 87,
Closest metre: iambic pentameter
Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
Guessed form: blank verse
Metre: 1111001111 11010101101 101100110101 110100111000 10010111001 11011001101 100110011101 11001110100 1111011001 1111110111 101001100 1111101101 1100101100 1011001110 01111101110 11100111101 1010101100 10010010110 1001111111 1111101011 111011111101 111011111011 1101111111 0111010101 0101111101 01011110111 11011110 1011010110 0111111111 11001111110 1111001111 1101011110 1101101110 0111100101 11010101101 1011101100 10111110111 0100110101 10111101010 01011111101 10001110001 1101000101 0100010111 1110011011 11100100101 1001111111 1011100100 0101010100 1101100111 01011101101 10011101101 1111100001 0111111111 1011010111 1111110001 1110111011101 10111111101 11111010001 11001011000 110101000 101001110101 1111110110 1011110110 010101010 0101001011 10101101011 01100101001 1101110111 11110010100 010110010 01001001111 1111111111 1111011010 10111111110 0111010010 011011011000 11001011111 11101111110 11101100111 1111111101 111101101100 1111111111 10111101101 1111111110 01011011010 1111111111 11011100100
Amount of stanzas: 1
Average number of symbols per stanza: 4093
Average number of words per stanza: 718
Amount of lines: 87
Average number of symbols per line: 46 (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; courtiers, all, which, now, you, and, whose, to, who, in are repeated.

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Satire V by John Donne: poem analysis

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