This is an analysis of The Spring-It Had Simply Been You by Boris Pasternak.
The spring-it had simply been you,
And so, to a certain extent,…
Browse poems by Boris Pasternak
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abab cdeX debe XXXXX Xdbe dbXe cfdf
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,5,4,4,4,
- Metre: 001011001 11001001 01011001001 01101011 1111100101 01011010 1100110011 110010100 01011101011 001011110 10101101001 001010010 0110101000 011010010 111001001 110110110 110011110 0110100 1111101 11011010 1101101 110110110 00111001 110011010 011011 110010110 1101111 111010110 111101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 29
Repeated words/phrases
of, to, and
Anaphora
to
