This is an analysis of What Shall I Think?... by Ivan Turgenev.

What shall I think when I come to die, if only I am in a condition to think
anything then?…

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Structure

  • Rhyme scheme: aX XX bX cd eX dX aec XdbX
  • Stanza lengths: 2,2,2,2,2,2,3,4,
  • Metre: 111111101010110001001 1011 1111101111011111100 110110111100101 100111010011111101 1011111001010010 11010111011011101 111110100110 01111101110110110 10100111 1110101101011011 1010111 11101111011111101 1000110100011101000 10010101011 111010111010111111 10101110001001101 101001101011001100 1
  • Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Stanzas: 8
  • Lines: 19

Repeated words/phrases

i, how, to, think, have, my