Analysis of The Sons of Saturn



Au, the Sons of Saturn,
looking back down at me
inauspicious lots, calling--beckoning,
What fierce winds guide these deities
to look back down at me,
and keep swaying their incarnation words
which carry away like white, raven doves
upon Satan's face?


Scheme ABCDBEFG
Poetic Form
Metre 101110 101111 010110100 11111100 111111 0110101101 1100111101 0111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 251
Words 45
Sentences 1
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8
Lines Amount 8
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 200
Words per stanza (avg) 41
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Submitted by shelina_s on May 31, 2022

Modified on March 13, 2023

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