This is an analysis of N. N. by Ivan Turgenev.

Calmly and gracefully thou movest along the path of life, tearless and
smileless, and scarce a heedless glance of indifferent attention ruffles…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abX Xa XX bX Xb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,2,2,2,2,
  • Metre: 101100110010101101 1001101010010001010 11 1101111110101101 1111 111111111011011011 11001101111010 110111100001110 100 100100100101011001 011110101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 11

Repeated words/phrases

and, of, thou, no