This is an analysis of The Old Man by Ivan Turgenev.
Days of darkness, of dreariness, have come…. Thy own infirmities, the
sufferings of those dear to thee, the chill and gloom of old age. All that…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: XXaX XX XX XXXXa X
- Stanza lengths: 4,2,2,5,1,
- Metre: 10100100111101000 10001101011101111 1110111101001000010 10010010111 1111101111110110 11 101110010111011010 10101 1111010100100011001 11100101001110101 11101101101001011 10101010111011100 001 1011110111
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: sonnet with trochaic pentameter or irregular meter
- Stanzas: 5
- Lines: 14
Repeated words/phrases
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