This is an analysis of On Early Trains by Boris Pasternak.
This winter I was outside Moscow,
But when the time for work came round,…
Browse poems by Boris Pasternak
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XaXb cdXd adad eXab eddd dfgf ddgd baeb ghXh Xcac gdadXedgd
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,9,
- Metre: 010111111 11011111 101010111 11010001 1010111101 101101101 1101010101 0101001101 10101110 101100101 01010100101 0011010101 110010101 0101010101 11011101 1011011111 10010100100 1100010101 101011101 1001001001 100100101 11011101 000100110 10101101 11010001 11000111 111100011 01011100 100101010 11011101 110001010 1010101 11110101 0101011100 11010111 11010100 11010001 1111101 11010111 100011101 11101010 01010101 11010101 1001010001 11010101 10110111 01011001 110100101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 12
- Lines: 48
Anaphora
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