This is an analysis of On The Sea by Ivan Turgenev.

I was going from Hamburg to London in a small steamer. We were two
passengers; I and a little female monkey, whom a Hamburg merchant was…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: abc bb def ghbif jkebdf Xj dg fk di ak ddc h Xc
  • Stanza lengths: 3,2,3,5,6,2,2,2,2,2,3,1,2,
  • Metre: 111001001000110101 1001101011101010101 101001001010 11101011010011111 101001100010101101 10011110111010111 1111110010101110111 011111011010001 1101101111110100 101010011011011001 0100101101110110001 00101000110111000100 1011001010100101 111101011010111 1001010010011110011 11100110001101001 11001111101000101 111001101100101101 110010011101101101 01011010101101110 1 010101011100101101 010101010 101001010010101101 1110010001101 01101001010101010101101 01011010010 111010111010111010 1 01010111001010110 001110100111111101 10 111111101010 111100110111110110 1111101100010110010
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 13
  • Lines: 35

Repeated words/phrases

to, and, her, little, up

Anaphora

to