This is an analysis of The Doves by Ivan Turgenev.
I stood on the top of a sloping hillside; before me, a gold and silver sea
of shifting colour, stretched the ripe rye.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aa bc Xde dfXf begdX ee hcX XXXh e eifgXg aae hcXei
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,4,5,2,3,4,1,6,3,5,
- Metre: 11101001011011011101 010101011 1110100110111101100 10010111100 1101110101010101110 1010111110100110110 0010 111110110001010 01111111001100101 01101111010001101 1110 11101001100101110 1111101110011111 101011111011110 110100110111101000 100 1011011011010100101 011110101110 111001101101001101 1011001011010101110 000100010 011111100010110 111011011111001 0011110111011111 10111000101 1111011101010110 11101101110101100 1001010111101001 101111001001011 01001010011100100 10010110101011 1010111001010 11001010110100101011 11111011110011011 111010010 111001110111010101 01 11101111010011101 01111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 13
- Lines: 39
Repeated words/phrases
of, and, two
Anadiplosis
alone
