This is an analysis of The Beggar by Ivan Turgenev.
I was walking along the street… I was stopped by a decrepit old beggar.
Bloodshot, tearful eyes, blue lips, coarse rags, festering wounds…. Oh,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a Xa XX XXb XX bX XXXa
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,3,2,2,4,
- Metre: 1110010111110010110 10101111110011 11000100110000100010 111010110101111100 1 101100111011111100 10011101001101011 1010011101110 0101110101010110 1010111010 0101110010101111 1001111010 1001011011011001 110 11111101010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: rondeau
- Stanzas: 8
- Lines: 15
Repeated words/phrases
he, and, his