Analysis of A tall, strapping shot, you, considerate hunter...
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
A tall, strapping shot, you, considerate hunter,
Phantom with gun at the flood of my soul,
Do not destroy me now as a traitor,
As fodder for feeling, crumbled up small!
Grant me destruction rising and soaring,
Dress me at night in the willow and ice.
Start me, I pray, from the reeds in the morning,
Finish me off with one shot in my flight,
And for this lofty and resonant parting
Thank you. Forgive me, I kiss you, oh hands
Of my neglected, my disregarded
Homeland, my diffidence, family, friends.
Scheme | AXAX BXBX BXXX |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 011011010010 1011101111 1101111010 1101101011 1101010010 111100101 11111010010 1011111011 01110010010 1101111111 110101010 1111001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 496 |
Words | 93 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 12 |
Letters per line (avg) | 32 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 129 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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