This is an analysis of The Sphinx by Ivan Turgenev.
Yellowish-grey sand, soft at the top, hard, grating below… sand without
end, where-ever one looks.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: ab bb XXX cd cXaeXeX b ad b XX
- Stanza lengths: 2,2,3,2,7,1,2,1,2,
- Metre: 10011110111001101 111011 10101010010101110001 1000101 111111010110100 0101001011111110 11011001010011 101111110101101001 10101101111 1111110001010010 11110011111110 111111111011111 111110101011010 101001110101001000 10110011110111010 10 1111111111101 1111100111101111 11010011 1101100 01010101010100111001 101010
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 9
- Lines: 22
Repeated words/phrases
those, they, and, of, too
Anaphora
and