This is an analysis of Stretching Taut The Silken Threads by Osip Emilevich Mandelstam.
Stretching taut the silken threads
On a mother-of-pearl shuttle,…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: aXbb aXcd Xcad
- Stanza lengths: 4,4,4,
- Metre: 1010101 10100110 111001 1101010 111011 010010 1111100 110101 1111 10110 11110011 111100101
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 3
- Lines: 12
