This is an analysis of Ploughing Time by Boris Pasternak.

What is the matter with the landscape?
Familiar landmarks are not there.…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdbd XeXe cfXf
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 100100011 01011111 111101011 01110101 0101001010 11001101 1101010011 11010101 111101010 110101001 100111110 11010111 110110110 11011111 100110010 11010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: ballad stanza
  • Stanzas: 4
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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