This is an analysis of the poem The Gadfly that begins with:
1.
All gentle folks who owe a grudge... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: Xabab Xcdcd Xcccc XeXXf Xegeg Xdfdf XXehi XhfXf Xjdjd XcXcX XbebX XifXf Xbbbb XdbXb
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,5,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1 11011101 010101 10111111 110101 1 01111111 111111 111100101 111111 1 11011111 011101 11000101 111111 1 11010101 01 11011101 110101 1 01010100 110001 11010101 111001 1 11011101 110101 10011101 111101 1 010111110 01 11100101 011001 1 10110010 101101 10110111 101101 1 01110101 110101 01011101 111101 1 11010101 1101010 11010101 1101010 1 11011011 111111 11010101 100101 1 11010101 110101 11110101 110101 1 11010101 010101 11010101 110111 1 11000101 101100 11100101 010101
- Amount of stanzas: 14
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 118
- Average number of words per stanza: 24
- Amount of lines: 70
- Average number of symbols per line: 23 (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; better, than are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words better, too are repeated.
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- summary of The Gadfly;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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