This is an analysis of the poem Sensuality that begins with:

FEELING hunger and cold, feeling
Food, feeling fire, feeling ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaXa
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 18,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: limerick
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 10101110 1101010 101110 100110 101110 110110 110110 100110 101110 101110 100110 101110 110110 101110 101110 101110 11010 10
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 486
  • Average number of words per stanza: 72
  • Amount of lines: 18
  • Average number of symbols per line: 26 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 4
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; feeling, touching, and are repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines feeling, tasting, touching, knowing, holding, hearing, smelling are repeated).

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  • summary of Sensuality;
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