This is an analysis of Sultry Night by Boris Pasternak.

It drizzled, but not even grasses
Would bend within the bag of storm;…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xaba cdXd Xdce bbdb feffXee
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,7,
  • Metre: 010111010 11010101 110101010 01010101 010011110 11010101 010101010 11010111 010101010 01110101 011111100 10011001 010111011 11111101 011101010 11111101 110101010 11010101 110101110 010111010 11010101 101011111
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 6
  • Lines: 22

Anaphora

the, would