This is an analysis of August by Boris Pasternak.
This was its promise, held to faithfully:
The early morning sun came in this way…
Browse poems by Boris Pasternak
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXa bcdc defe ccec afXf gXcc baba hggg Xaha cibi hXhc XgXX
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 0101010100 0101011001 0101000101 0101010101 1001010101 0101010111 01111111010 1001010111 11010101110 1011011111 1111110111 0101011111 1101110101 1100111001 0101010111 1010000011 1011010001 1101010101 1101110101 1111000101 1111010101 01001100101 00010010101 1111011111 1001001111 1101000101 1001010001 0100110011 1001110101 1101000100 1111110100 1101111100 1111110101 0101010111 0111110101 1101010101 10010010101 01001000010 0110010101 01000111010 10010010100 11101111010 01001011010 1001111101 10011010110 01000100001 1100010101 0101010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Repeated words/phrases
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