This is an analysis of You Are Disappointed? You Thought... by Boris Pasternak.

You are disappointed? You thought that in peace we
Would part to the sound of a requiem, a swan-song?…

Browse poems by Boris Pasternak

Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: Xabc bcab XXdd
  • Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
  • Metre: 111010111011 1100100100011 110110110010 101010010011 1010011010110 101101001010 1010110111110 1010101011110 01001001101000 010110011010 1011010110101 1011100010110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 3
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

you, would, it, that

Anaphora

that