This is an analysis of the poem Dis-Stance: Versts, Miles that begins with:
To B. Pasternak
Dis-stance: versts, miles......
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: X abca abbX XbXca aXaaXaa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 1,4,4,5,7,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: limerick
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 01100 11110 11111101 1111010 101101 11110 10100101 10001011 110111111 01010110 1100100111011 010 111 011110 0100110 1011100 0101001101 110001110 11000111010 11010110101
- Amount of stanzas: 6
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 105
- Average number of words per stanza: 17
- Amount of lines: 20
- Average number of symbols per line: 31 (strings are less long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
There are many three dots in the poem. Readers should think of the author's idea together with the pensive speaker.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; dis is repeated.
The author used the same word dis at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines us is repeated).
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- summary of Dis-Stance: Versts, Miles;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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