This is an analysis of Russia, O My Russia, Hail! by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.

Russia, O my Russia, hail!
Steeds as tempests flying,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XaXaXbXb
  • Stanza lengths: 8,
  • Metre: 1011101 111010 1000101 101110 1110111 111101 111001000 111111
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 8

Repeated words/phrases

hail

Anaphora

hail