This is an analysis of The Reporter by Ivan Turgenev.

Two friends were sitting at a table drinking tea.
A sudden hubbub arose in the street. They heard pitiable groans, furious…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: a XX XX aX X XX X XXX X XX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,2,2,2,1,2,1,3,1,2,
  • Metre: 110101010101 01010010011110001100 011001010 1101100110011010 10 1100010001001011110110 110100101000111101 1010100110 1010000011011100111 1101001 110110 101001010011011010110 11001011001000100100010 01010111111 100110010110 101011111110110011 1
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 10
  • Lines: 17

Repeated words/phrases

of, ', it, thief

Epiphora

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