Analysis of ‘February. Take ink and weep,’
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
February. Take ink and weep,
write February as you’re sobbing,
while black Spring burns deep
through the slush and throbbing.
Take a cab. For a clutch of copecks,
through bell-towers’ and wheel noise,
go where the rain-storm’s din breaks,
greater than crying or ink employs.
Where rooks in thousands falling,
like charred pears from the skies,
drop down into puddles, bringing
cold grief to the depths of eyes.
Below, the black shows through,
and the wind’s furrowed with cries:
the more freely, the more truly
then, sobbing verse is realised.
Scheme | ABAB CCCC BCBC XCXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 1001101 11001110 11111 101010 10110111 1110011 1101111 101101101 1101010 111101 11011010 1110111 010111 0011011 01100110 110111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 544 |
Words | 92 |
Sentences | 7 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 27 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 107 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 23 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 30, 2023
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