This is an analysis of An Eastern Legend by Ivan Turgenev.
Who in Bagdad knows not Jaffar, the Sun of the Universe?
One day, many years ago (he was yet a youth), Jaffar was walking in the…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X ab cX bX dX ad aefXdX eXX d aef fg fd h gbX agX hXbbXX fXfX gXbeX XX adXbc
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,2,2,6,3,1,3,2,2,1,3,3,6,4,5,2,5,
- Metre: 101011010100101 1110001111010111000 010010 1000111011111010001 1 011010010110011101 1000101101001101101 1110111101111001011 11010101 011010110101001110 101101 01111010110100011100 1001011011100001 101100000101101101100 01011101011010001010 001011001110101110 01001011 011101001001010011 101101110001111010 10101010 011100011101 0110011101001100010 11101001011000111010 100010 0101101101111000110 01111111 0010100010101111 101010101 0110101001001101 1111011010101111 01011111101011 1101110100 01110101111100100 110101100110101 1001001 11011110101101101 111011100010011011 11011001101110111 101011001111011111 11010111001001010101 0100011001 0111110111011101 1011110000111011110 10110101011011011001 010111101110101010 11101011101011111 11111001011111001 10111011001001111001 101010010101011110 10 11111011001110100 100110010010 01111001110100110 1 101011010010101001 01
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Guessed form: blank verse
- Stanzas: 21
- Lines: 56
Repeated words/phrases
his, and, in, i, ', of, it, you, pick, eat, be
Anaphora
the, apple
Epiphora
and
