This is an analysis of Necessitas--Vis--Libertas! by Ivan Turgenev.

A tall, bony old woman, with iron face and dull, fixed look, moves with
long strides, and, with an arm dry as a stick, pushes before her another…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: XXa XaX XXbX XXb
  • Stanza lengths: 3,3,4,3,
  • Metre: 01101100101111110 111011110110010010 10 010011010011001000 101001011101111001 100100111 010111111011111 10010110110101101 11001111011111001 1110111 10001100 10101
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 5
  • Lines: 12

Repeated words/phrases

with, woman, her, to