This is an analysis of Stay! by Ivan Turgenev.
Stay! as I see thee now, abide for ever in my memory!
From thy lips the last inspired note has broken. No light, no flash is…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bccdb eX X f Xdf eXdda
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,2,1,1,3,5,
- Metre: 1111110111001100 01101010111011110 01111111101010000 10100100101110010 101011111111011 0100101 10010010110101100101 110110110 110101111101010 01111111110 00001000101000100101 000101001010100101110 101011010 010111110101010011 1111101011011111 110101010011001011 11110110100100110101 0100
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 7
- Lines: 18
Repeated words/phrases
of, thy, this, thou, art, instant
Anaphora
this
Epiphora
the
