This is an analysis of the poem Who Practices Abstinence that begins with:
There's always talk about...
The getting of sex....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ABAAaaXb BCBDEEB BB ABaBB AAaBBCBDEEBXBBBB
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,7,2,5,16,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: rondeau rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 111101 01001 111101 1100001 1111101 110011 01101010 110100 1100100 10101110 11100100 11100001 01 010 0010001 1100100 1100100 111101 01001 1 1100100 11100100 111101 1100001 1 1100100 11100100 10101110 11100100 11100001 01 010 0010001 1100100 1100100 1100100 1100100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 157
- Average number of words per stanza: 23
- Amount of lines: 37
- Average number of symbols per line: 25 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 4
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; practices, who, abstinence are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word who is repeated.
The author used the same words who, there's at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines abstinence is repeated).
The poet repeated the same word abstinence at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.
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