This is an analysis of False Alarm by Boris Pasternak.

From early morning-nonsense
With tubs and troughs and strain,…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abcb adcX bede afgf chih fdcXXiege
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,9,
  • Metre: 0101010 011111 0100010 111001 1100010 110101 0111010 100011 1110010 0111001 1100110 010101 0111010 010101 1100011 110101 1101010 010001 0111000 111111 11001110 100111 0101010 001101 1101010 011111 1100011 010111
  • Closest metre: iambic trimeter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 28

Repeated words/phrases

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Anaphora

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