This is an analysis of the poem Sexual Soup that begins with:

A man so sick that the sexual soup
cannot save him -...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: Xa bXcdde Xa fbd aXX gccXa gX hiefhiX Xd X
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 2,6,2,3,3,5,2,7,2,1,
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Сlosest rhyme: couplets
  • Сlosest stanza type: tercets
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 0111101001 1011 010101 11101 11010 10111 01000101 11 1100111 11111 01110001 1101 1101011 110011 111 11 110110101 1101111 1111 1110101 0111 110110 101010 101010011 10111 1100110001 1101110001 110001 1101 11010010 10111110 11 1011100
  • Amount of stanzas: 10
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 82
  • Average number of words per stanza: 16
  • Amount of lines: 33
  • Average number of symbols per line: 24 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, my, as are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words i, my are repeated.

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

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  • summary of Sexual Soup;
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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