This is an analysis of Petrograd by Babette Deutsch.

And there was stormy silence in that city,
A silence of the unborn where it moved…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ababcdcdeafeXf
  • Stanza lengths: 14,
  • Metre: 11110100110 0100011101 0101010110 100101100111 0101000111 1000111101 1011011101 01101010101 0111011111 1000010100 0101010101 1101110101 1001010100 110001001001
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: Shakespearean sonnet
  • Stanzas: 1
  • Lines: 14

Repeated words/phrases

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