This is an analysis of the poem The Saffron that begins with:
The saffron of virtue and contentment
Is dissolved in the water-gun of love and affection. ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 0100101010 00100101011010 1111001011001 10010101 101000101001101110 11101110101 1010010100110 110111001000101
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 391
- Average number of words per stanza: 69
- Amount of lines: 8
- Average number of symbols per line: 48 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
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