This is an analysis of The Last Meeting by Ivan Turgenev.

We had once been close and warm friends…. But an unlucky moment came…
and we parted as enemies.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: ab cd c a ecXebbX Xde d XXf XXf
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,1,1,7,3,1,3,3,
  • Metre: 1110111111010101 11101100 1001111000111111 111100111011 11110110001111 1101111101101 10100101001011111 010101100110111101 0100101100111010100 11111000101011010 010011100101011110 01010111100101000101 111110100 1111111010111110100 10110101011000011111 1 1010110110111101 010110110100111100 111001010111100 1001101010111 0101111111011110 1111011
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 22

Repeated words/phrases

and, him, of, his, my, to, me, that, it, her

Anaphora

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