This is an analysis of The Steppe by Boris Pasternak.

How lovely those journeys into quiet!
Boundless the steppe, like a seascape,…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aXbc bdXE eeXE bdfd XXXb eXcc fcfa dXdb dgag
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1101100010 10011010 110101011 01011011 01011001 0101001011 11010101 1110111 0110111001 1111001001 01001011 1110111 010100111 0111101 1110111 0110110111 101011011 101110111 110101111 1100111010 100111101 101111001 111100101 01100101 10011111 11111011 11100101 1101011 10111101 10100010 0010111 11110010 10110111 01110101 110110101 1010101
  • Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 9
  • Lines: 36

Repeated words/phrases

you, that

Anaphora

is