This is an analysis of the poem Thirsting Libido that begins with:
I have been a grown man aging.
With a wealth of diversified experiences....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aBcXXXcdaBef Xcbcg XXX hhfX geghg gggXfXd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 12,5,3,4,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001110 0010010101000 11100010 1001001100100 101011 0010011 00100010 111001 01110 0010010101000 11111110 010110001010 1111 110011011 101101000 110011 11001010001 10 1111001110010 111100100101 11 111 1 1101110101 11 10100000010 100000001 10100001001 11011001 1 01101101 111011101 1101101101 01000111001 110110100100 001011100010
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 33
- Amount of lines: 36
- Average number of symbols per line: 30 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and, i, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words with, i are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines know is repeated).
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- summary of Thirsting Libido;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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