This is an analysis of the poem I Love Sensual Women that begins with:

I love sensual women and not passionate ones. A passionate woman closes her eyes, moans and shouts and the enjoyment of a passionate woman is blind....

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  • Rhyme scheme: X X Xa aX a X X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,1,2,2,1,1,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Metre: 1110010111001010010100111110010001001001 010010100111001011011110110111100101111111111100101001011001010011111001010010100101010100100100100101010010001001011010010011011101010 010010011100 0111101010 01001010100110110100010 01001001101011001100010100101111010101010010111010010 11101010010010011101011 101101001001001000100101101101101010101001000110100100100010001001 010010110010010010
  • Amount of stanzas: 7
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 198
  • Average number of words per stanza: 36
  • Amount of lines: 9
  • Average number of symbols per line: 154 (very long strings)
  • Average number of words per line: 28
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; passionate, woman, her, and, you, to, sexual, organs, she, sensual, bandage, in are repeated.

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

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

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