This is an analysis of A Russian Song by Igor Severyanin.
Lace and roses in the forest morning shine,
Shrewdly the small spider climbs his cobweb line.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bb cc dd ee Xff ggXbb
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,3,5,
- Metre: 11100010101 10011010111 11100110101 10101110111 00001010111 00101010101 10101000101 10111010101 11101110101 11001010101 11101010 101 10101100101 10100010101 10011111111 101001110111 10100010101
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: heroic couplets
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 17
Repeated words/phrases
what, to, her
Anaphora
ah
