This is an analysis of the poem Sex Without Love that begins with:
How do they do it, the ones who make love
without love? Beautiful as dancers,...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abbcbdXddacefcdcgXeXgdfX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 24,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111001111 011100110 10101101110 1001101 011101010 1111110 10111101100 1001111100 1001001100 110111 01111001 101011111 11101010 0100101101 010101010 101001111 0101011110 111110111101 001100101 010111101100 10011101010 0011101100 10100100101 010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 936
- Average number of words per stanza: 177
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; come, to, their, they are repeated.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines the is repeated).
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- summary of Sex Without Love;
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- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
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