This is an analysis of On A Fateful Day, An Unlucky Time by Boris Pasternak.
On a fateful day, an unlucky time,
Unannounced, it may happen thus:…
Browse poems by Boris Pasternak
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xaba BCXD XcaX dcce Xacd XcXc eXeX BCbD bfXf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010110101 10101101 100101101010 10100111 1010110100 00100101 01110110111 10100101 1011110011 10110101 11100101100 001011111 1010111101 10101011 00101100101 101001101 1010011100 10101001 10101110101 11101001 10100111001 001001101 001001011010 111001001 101010001011 101011111 10110101001 001011010 1010110100 00100101 00110110100 10100101 10110100100 101101001 10110100100 00101111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 36
Repeated words/phrases
and, seems
Anaphora
and, seems
