This is an analysis of To Boris Pilnyak by Boris Pasternak.

Ah, don't I know that, groping in the gloom,
Night would not find its way out of the dark?…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abab ccdd cXcd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 1111110001 1111011001 111010101 1101101101 1111010111 01110101101 1111101111 0111001001 0101001111 0101010100 0101101101 0100010101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

in

Anaphora

the