This is an analysis of the poem Pushing Buttons that begins with:
What are you doing?
'Pushing buttons....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: a bX baX XXXcX Xc cX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,2,3,5,2,2,
- Closest metre: iambic trimeter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Metre: 11110 1010 01010 00 1111010 0100100011 1 010101101011 1100111 1100 100010000011000 1 1010 1101 011101100
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 59
- Average number of words per stanza: 12
- Amount of lines: 15
- 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.
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- summary of Pushing Buttons;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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