This is an analysis of the poem Jouissance that begins with:
An angry philosopher froze
His philandering wife—Passivity...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcadcccae fbXefXX XgXdgee
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 11,7,7,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: couplets
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11001001 0010010100 1100110100 1010101 11001001 10100101 01001001 1101010 101001010 111111 001101 11100101 01000100100 001111 0101101 0101111 0101101 11101 1010101 1111110 10010101 111110 01110 1111111 1111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 243
- Average number of words per stanza: 43
- Amount of lines: 25
- Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; yes is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word a is repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines yes is repeated).
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- summary of Jouissance;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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