This is an analysis of the poem Until A Foreplay Invites that begins with:
You wish to simmer in a love you missed.
And believing it can be delivered, ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbXca dcaada aXaXXcadc AXcba
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,6,9,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101000111 1010010010 010100 101 101000 1111110 11110 00011011 10011101 110101 011111 11011000111 1101101 110001000 1111110 1100010 0101101 100110110 01101010 001101 1101000111 110101001011 010101 1111001 01001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 186
- Average number of words per stanza: 36
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
There are many exclamation marks in the poem. The speaker is excited. He or she has strong feelings on the subject that is described in the poem.
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; you is repeated.
The author used the same word you at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of Until A Foreplay Invites;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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