This is an analysis of We Will Still Fight On by Ivan Turgenev.

What an insignificant trifle may sometimes transform the whole man!
Full of melancholy thought, I walked one day along the highroad.…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: X X aaX XbX cdc Xb ddX
  • Stanza lengths: 1,1,3,3,3,2,3,
  • Metre: 11101001010101011 1010101111101010 11101101010101011 101110011110110111 01100110111000010 1010010111001001010 01001011011000101110 0101100101100 10001100101110100100 10101010110100011011 110101010101010010 11111010010100110 010010110100 111111101011101 1101111101111101011 110111101
  • Closest metre: iambic pentameter
  • Guessed form: blank verse
  • Stanzas: 7
  • Lines: 16

Repeated words/phrases

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