This is an analysis of Pauline Pavlovna by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
SCENE: St. Petersburg. Period: the present time. A ballroom in the winter palace of the prince---. The ladies in character costumes and masks. The gentlement in official dress and unmasked, with the exception of six tall figures in scarlet kaftans, who are treated with marked distinction as they move here and there among the promenaders. Quadrille music throughout the dialogue.
Count SERGIUS PAVLOVICH PANSHINE, who has just arrived, is standing anxiously in the doorway of an antechamber with his eyes fixed upon the lady in the costume of a maid of honor in the time of Catharine II. The lady presently disengages herself from the crowd, and passes near count PANSHINE, who impulsively takes her by the hand and leads her across the threshold of the inner apartment, which is unoccupied.…
Structure
- Rhyme scheme: Xa b c b b b adefgbhagaX b fiib h b ej b gicghfehc b gb X b dahf b fhgkecblmcadlkcd b l b angdjeabhclecgfcmo b of b jafg b e b blapghefbbgchaabqbhfkfhplgnfeb b fbgb b h p lgXmhbl b hbf b lg b chgpc X f b acl h fa b l b mc b fo b kgia b cj b chXg b bfX b b
- Stanza lengths: 2,1,1,1,1,1,11,1,4,1,1,2,1,9,1,2,1,1,4,1,16,1,1,1,18,1,2,1,4,1,1,1,30,1,4,1,1,1,7,1,3,1,2,1,5,1,1,1,3,1,2,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,4,1,3,1,1,1,16,1,5,1,8,1,16,1,4,1,1,1,5,
- Metre: 1110010000110110010100010100100011101000010110100010011100101011100101011111101010001010010101 1100100101110101010000110110000011010100001001010001010101010010000100111011101010010101110010110010010100101 1 01 1 111 1 11111 0111110111 1011011101 1101011101 1101010111 0111111101 1111111111 111010001101 1101111111 1111110111 1001000 1 11111 111111001001 1001110111 1 010010 1 001001 11111 1 101001 0101011101 11011100111 0111010111 1001111110 1001011101 0101011101 11111100111 11111 1 11111 1 1101100 1 111 1110111001 0111010101 11000100101 1 1111110111 11011101001 0101011011 1111111111 0111010011 1001010101 01100100001 1111110001 0101111101 0101110111 0101110101 1100010011 11011010111 11110101001 11001010101 1101111001 1 11111 1 11101 1101110001 01001010001 1101110011 01010110111 101110001 1101010101 1101011101 0101010011 11011100001 0101010101 1111111101 1011110110 0101110001 1111010101 1111010010 1111010011 1100 1 110100 1101 1 101101 1101100101 0101110101 01010001101 1 0101001101 1 0111111101 0101011111 1001010001 11010101010 1101010100 01010001110 11110010101 0101011011 1111110101 1101011101 1101010101 01010111010 0111110110 11010100111 0111000101 1101000111 1101010111 1101010111 1101010101 0111111101 0101110011 0101110101 1101110101 1111101100 1111111111 1101010011 01010100111 0101111111 0110011111 1101101101 1 0101110111 1111010101 0111111101 1111111111 1 0001000101 11010 1111111111 0111010111 11011101000 1111111101 1101101101 1101111101 111 1 0110011 1111100101 10011110 1 101 1110011 1 01 1111010111 0101010011 01110101010 01010101110 110 1111010 1 111 010111001 1100100011 1 1001111101 0111110101 1 1011011101 1 1110110101 1001 1 110111 010100 1 10101 01011001010 1101111101 0101011111 1 1101010100 0101 1 0111010 1111010111 01011011 11010010100 1 1111110011 10010111110 100 1 1110011 1 1110010101 01110011001 0111111101 1011111111 11110001100 1101010110 1111010011 0100110011 1111011101 1100010101 11010100010 10010011001 10111111101 1111001001 0111111111 1101011111 1 01000110111 11011101001 1011011111 11010111010 01001 1 110110 1101011111 1111010111 01001110100 1011010111 0101010101 11010100101 0100110101 1 1111010111 1111010011 1110110111 0111011111 0111001101 10111100011 1101010101 1101001111 0011010100 0111010111 1111111111 0111010001 1101010101 1100011101 1010100010100 100100 1 1101 11001001111 11011111010 0111110101 0101 1011 1 1100100 1101100101 110011111 11110001001
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Guessed form: ballad stanza
- Stanzas: 82
- Lines: 250
Repeated words/phrases
in, of, and, who, with, your, as, tsar, i, she, her, same
Anaphora
he, the, i
Anadiplosis
he, eyes
