The Insect Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A B B C D EF G H I F| I dreamed that we were sitting a party of twenty in a big room with open windows | A |
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| Among us were women children old men We were all talking of some very well known subject talking noisily and indistinctly | B |
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| Suddenly with a sharp whirring sound there flew into the room a big insect two inches long it flew in circled round and settled on the wall | B |
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| It was like a fly or a wasp Its body dirt coloured of the same colour too its flat stiff wings outspread feathered claws and a head thick and angular like a dragon fly's both head and claws were bright red as though steeped in blood | C |
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| This strange insect incessantly turned its head up and down to right and to left moved its claws then suddenly darted from the wall flew with a whirring sound about the room and again settled again hatefully and loathsomely wriggling all over without stirring from the spot | D |
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| In all of us it excited a sensation of loathing dread even terror | E |
| No one of us had ever seen anything like it We all cried 'Drive that monstrous thing away ' and waved our handkerchiefs at it from a distance but no one ventured to go up to it and when the insect began flying every one instinctively moved away | F |
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| Only one of our party a pale faced young man stared at us all in amazement He shrugged his shoulders he smiled and positively could not conceive what had happened to us and why we were in such a state of excitement He himself did not see an insect at all did not hear the ill omened whirr of its wings | G |
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| All at once the insect seemed to stare at him darted off and dropping on his head stung him on the forehead above the eyes The young man feebly groaned and fell dead | H |
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| The fearful fly flew out at once Only then we guessed what it was had visited us | I |
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| May | F |
Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
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