This is an analysis of The Stone Idol by Ivan Bunin.
Dead grasses parched by heat. The steppeland, seared,
Runs on and merges with the sky's pale reaches.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: abXb cXcX XaXa
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 11011101001 11110001110 1001011111 110001110 1100011101 01110110010 1101110101 1101010 1101010100 01110111010 0111111011 110001010
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
