This is an analysis of the poem Lesson From The Kama-Sutra (Wait For Her) that begins with:

Wait for her with an azure cup.
Wait for her in the evening at the spring, among perfumed roses....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: XaabXcdXeeXdXfXfcccbXef
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 23,
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 11001101 11000101001010110 11000100011110 110000100101001 11000101001 1100101000110 110001010100111 1101111 01011110 010110110 11100100101 100010001011001 110110010011 11110110010101 111010111101110 101110001101 100101100100011 1011101111 11100110111 11001011011 10110110101 1101000111010 11
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 1107
  • Average number of words per stanza: 218
  • Amount of lines: 23
  • Average number of symbols per line: 47 (strings are more long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 9
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; for, wait, her, with, of, to are repeated.

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

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines her is repeated).

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  • summary of Lesson From The Kama-Sutra (Wait For Her);
  • central theme;
  • idea of the verse;
  • history of its creation;
  • critical appreciation.

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