This is an analysis of the poem A Gas Butterfly that begins with:
Tell me what's happening to me?
Why is my heart beating so fervently? ...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: XXXa aXXb XbbX cXXc
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,4,4,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11110001 1011101100 11010101 10101010 001111101 010101 00100101 11100101 000111010 010101010 1111001 11001011 0101011 101010010 111011101 01011001
- Amount of stanzas: 4
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 138
- Average number of words per stanza: 25
- Amount of lines: 16
- Average number of symbols per line: 34 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 6
Mood of the speaker:
The speaker asks many questions. Perhaps, he or she is in confusion.
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; it is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word why is repeated.
The author used the same word is at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
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- summary of A Gas Butterfly;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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