Analysis of In Paris

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 1892 (Moscow) – 1941 (Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR)



Homes reach the stars, the sky's below,
The land in smoke to it is near.
Inside the big and happy Paris
Remains the secretive despair.

The evening boulevards are noisy,
Gone are the sundown's final rays,
And there are couples everywhere
Trembling of lips, daring of eyes.

I'm here alone. To trunk of chestnut
It is so nice one's head to lean!
And like in the abandoned Moscow
In heart weep verses of Rostand.

Paris at night is sad and alien,
Dear to the heart is madness gone!
I'm going home, there's vial of sorrow
And tender portrait of someone.

There's someone's glance, sad and fraternal.
There's tender profile on the wall.
Rostand and the Reichstadtian martyr
And Sara - in sleep come they all!

Within the big and happy Paris
I dream of grass, of clouds and rain
And laughter far, and shadow near,
And deep just like before is pain.


Scheme ABCD XXDX EXAE FXAF XGXG CHBH
Poetic Form Quatrain  (33%)
Metre 11010101 01011111 010101010 01010001 01010110 1101101 0111010 100111011 11011111 11111111 01000101 0111011 1011110100 11011101 1101110110 0101011 11110010 1101101 100110 01001111 010101010 11111101 0101011 01110111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 823
Words 154
Sentences 13
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 6
Letters per stanza (avg) 109
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet poet. more…

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