This is an analysis of My Adversary by Ivan Turgenev.

I had a comrade who was my adversary; not in pursuits, nor in service, nor
in love, but our views were never alike on any subject, and whenever we…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abX cX XXX dc X bc de fce X dcfX aeXc
  • Stanza lengths: 3,2,3,2,1,2,2,3,1,4,4,
  • Metre: 110111111010100110101 01111010011100110101 11010001011 11001101011101011001 1111010101000110101 110100110101011110111 11011011011101010010 1111101011 11001101111111100 1111101001001 11111001111101111 0010110111110100001 11 11111101010110110101 10111011001001111 111101111001110110 1011011111111110101 010101010 0100100101 1111111010101010 010101111101101011 10111011111010000 11011010101101111 1101001100101110101 1001100001001111 11110
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 12
  • Lines: 26

Repeated words/phrases

in, and, about, you, i, or

Anaphora

the