This is an analysis of The Insect by Ivan Turgenev.

I dreamed that we were sitting, a party of twenty, in a big room with open
windows.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ab XX XcX XXbd dXde XefaX aeXcb XadXdf
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,4,4,5,5,6,
  • Metre: 11110100100100011010 10 0110101011101100110 11011010011000 10000110111000101 11110101010111010 1 0110110101011000110 10111101011011 11001010111110111 1101 01110100101111011 0110111001000110 01010101101100110001 1000101100110001 01010010001001011010 110111011011011111 10110111100100010 11110011001101101 1010010100101 10101100111111110 01011010111100011 01111001111001010 010101011111110110 11001001 11101110111101110 1011110100101011 101111 01011111101111011 1001
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 30

Repeated words/phrases

and, head, one, it, not, he