This is an analysis of the poem Sex Elegy that begins with:
My lovers have vanished. I used to have many.
One moved to Boston and married a Japanese photographer....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXb aXaXXcX XcXbaXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,7,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 110110110110 1101011001010100 0100101010010111011 1010001001110010 110111011000 101101110010 10100100101110 1010101111 1110101010111 10101110111101 10111111110 1100011001011 1101111011111 11101011 10111101010 00100101010010100 01001111011 100100101101101
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 307
- Average number of words per stanza: 52
- Amount of lines: 18
- Average number of symbols per line: 50 (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; to, still, my are repeated.
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