This is an analysis of Batuschka by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
[Author's Note: The title means "little father" or "dear little father", a term of endearment applied to the Tsar in Russian folk-song. --T.B.A.]
From yonder gilded minaret…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: X aabbX ccddX eeXXX ffggX hhiif
- Stanza lengths: 1,5,5,5,5,5,
- Metre: 1010101101001101010001001001001010111 01010101 01011101 11010101 01100111 101010 010100101 00110101 11010101 10111111 101010 0110001 01010011 1011001 01011100 101010 00110101 100111101 11010101 10010100 101010 10111001 10010101 1101011 10110111 1101
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Stanzas: 6
- Lines: 26
Repeated words/phrases
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