This is an analysis of Three Variants by Boris Pasternak.

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When in front of you hangs the day with its…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X Xaba cXcX X XdXd efgf X bdbb gXeb dXbX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,4,4,1,4,4,1,4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1 1010110100 1001111 0010110101 111001001 011011101 1001101 1010101111 010101 1 0100101010 01000101 010101110 11010101 010101110 01010101 010100010 01010101 1 10101010 00101010 10110110 10101110 10111010 10001010 11101010 10100010 11111110 10101010 10111011 101010100
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 31

Repeated words/phrases

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