This is an analysis of the poem The Third Satire Of Dr. John Donne that begins with:

Compassion checks my spleen, yet Scorn denies
The tears a passage thro' my swelling eyes;...

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  • Rhyme scheme: aabbaa ccddeebbaaffgggg gg hhddXXiijjkkhhgg ddffbbffXXdd gg ggbbdX jjggll ccjjXgjjccee aaaajj mmccbbff jjnnXgffffdd ggaaaa eeffbbaaggffXXdopXbbdoiijjffffddjjbb XfffXXddppXc bbhhXf ggbbjjXfaX
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 6,16,2,16,12,2,6,6,12,6,8,12,6,36,12,6,10,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: heroic couplets
  • Metre: 0101111101 0101011101 0111111101 1001011001 1001111101 0101011101 0101010101 1101111001 1101000101 1011011101 1101010101 1111010101 1101010111 1101110101 0101010101 1111110101 1111010101 010101001001 11001101010 01001101010 1101110101 1101000101 1011010111 0101000101 1101110101 1101011111 1101011101 1001010101 0101010101 1111010101 1101010101 0101010101 11110101001 11010111001 1111001101 11101110101 1101011101 1111111101 0111001001 11110100101 11111010101 1101011001 1101000101 1111111101 0111011101 0111010111 1111011101 1101010011 0101100101 11010100101 1101010101 0101110101 11010100001 1101111101 1110011001 1011000101 1101110111 1111010001 1101011101 0111011101 1101110101 1101010101 0101110101 1110011001 1001010101 1101010101 110111011 0101010111 1111010101 1111111101 0101010101 0100110101 1101010001 1101010001 0101110101 1101011101 10010010111 100010010111 0101010101 1101010011 1101110101 11100110101 1111111111 11010010101 01010100101 1111110101 1111010101 01010010101 1101010101 11010110011 01001011101 1101010101 1101110101 1101110101 011111110010 11001100010 1111011110 1100110101 0101110101 0101010101 10111110101 1101110101 1101111101 0011000101 1011010101 1001110101 11011001111 0101010101 11111100101 1101010101 1111111101 1101010101 0111100111 1101100101 0010011111 1101011101 0110011100 11011011011 1011111111 0111111001 1111001111 1111011001 1111111101 0111111101 1011100111 0101010100 0101010110 01001110100 1001101111 1110100110011 11010111100 1100000100 111100111011 1011111111 11011110110 001100101110 1111111111 0101000111 1101111101 10011110101 0001010101 0110100101 1101111101 1101110101 1101010101 1011111101 0111010110 1111010011 1111011111 1111010101 1111111101 0101110101 1001110101 1101110111 1101110110 1111011101 11001000110 0101111101 1101010101 1111010101 0111010111 0101010101 1001010010 1101010011 10011000001 11010010101 1111010101 1101010101 1101010001 1101000101 1111011111 1011010101 1101111101 11011101100
  • Amount of stanzas: 17
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 454
  • Average number of words per stanza: 82
  • Amount of lines: 174
  • Average number of symbols per line: 43 (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; thy, in, or, of, he, his, and, one, to, her, streams, they are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words as, or, the, and, to, each are repeated.

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