This is an analysis of Crossed Oars by Boris Pasternak.

My boat throbbed in the drowsy depths,
willows bowed, kissing collarbones,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXab cbcb XddX
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 111000101 111101000 11110111 1001100100 101110010 1010011101 10100010010 1110010010 10101001 101010101 10101101 10011000110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Anaphora

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