This is an analysis of The Fool by Ivan Turgenev.
There lived a fool.
For a long time he lived in peace and contentment; but by degrees rumours…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: a bc db ce fX XXb a g ecb a hX ihb diX fb hX X dg hb Xg hcbXb
- Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,2,3,1,1,3,1,2,3,3,2,2,1,2,2,2,5,
- Metre: 1101 101111011010110110 010111110101111010100 01101101010100111111 0101010 010010110101001101101 010011100010 011100111010011 10 10111011101101101 110101110101000111 10101 0110111001001 10101111001010101 1011101110110111 0110100111010110110 110101 0111011101001 101001011111101100 111010100100 10111010100100101 101001010011111010 1 011110111010011010 011010111011001101 101111101 0111110001111010 0100 100100010101001110 1 110101011111110 010001000010010001111 101101010 101101000101110010100 110010101010 11110101010000110100 10111011111 111111111111110 1001010110110010110 10111111110101 110010110
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 21
- Lines: 41
Repeated words/phrases
he, you, ', friend, one, and, venerate, him
Anaphora
and
Epiphora
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