This is an analysis of the poem Pasternak's Grave that begins with:
Grave, you’re robbed by the railing.
Railing, you’ve cut him off...
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: AbcXadceb aXccc eeXc cdfe gXhi Xcfc Ajda egci fjXh ejcc Xd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 9,5,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,4,2,
- Closest metre: iambic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: enclosed rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1111010 101111 001010111 01010110 0101 10111011010 1101101 111001011010 11010101 101010011101010 010110101011 010010001 0010100000010 0101010110010 0101000111 1011111 1101011001 11001101 110110101010 1110101 00101010 0010101 0011010100110 101101101 1101111 0101001010 10111101 01110111010 11000001010 1110111 1111010 1001010111 1111010111 10101011010 10001001 0100100100 001011101 001000010 1101100 101100101 11010101 10100111110 00110101 1100101101 11111001010 1011111110 1 010111001
- Amount of stanzas: 11
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 171
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 49
- Average number of symbols per line: 38 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; of, and are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same words the, for are repeated.
The literary device anadiplosis is detected in two or more neighboring lines. The word/phrase railing connects the lines.
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