This is an analysis of Masha by Ivan Turgenev.
When I lived, many years ago, in Petersburg, every time I chanced to hire a
sledge, I used to get into conversation with the driver.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab cdde fXeXe dg h cX gX X f giX X bhgdijjX XXdXjiag
- Stanza lengths: 2,4,5,2,1,2,2,1,1,3,1,8,8,
- Metre: 11110001010010011100100 111010010100010 11110001010001101100 0101110010001101010 10110100101011011 11110 1111011011011010101 11101010011110101 110101010010101111 11001111110111001 10101010 1010101001101101 11 101010111010010011 10010111110110111 10 0101101100111110111 1110101110011101 110110 0101101110101010 110101111111010 110101110011110101 110111001010 111001 1101101100111010010 1101101111101000101 111011100101111011 111100111100100011 101101011010101010 110101110111110101 110111111001101 1110 10110100001011011010 011110110010011 0101011010101 1111001111011010011 110110010111111010 11001010001011001100 10101
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 14
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
to, i, and, little, not, ', his, he, of
Epiphora
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