Analysis of After The Storm
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
The air is full of after-thunder freshness,
And everything rejoices and revives.
With the whole outburst of its purple clusters
The lilac drinks the air of paradise.
The gutters overflow; the change of weather
Makes all you see appear alive and new.
Meanwhile the shades of sky are growing lighter,
Beyond the blackest cloud the height is blue.
An artist's hand, with mastery still greater
Wipes dirt and dust off objects in his path.
Reality and life, the past and present,
Emerge transformed out of his colour-bath.
The memory of over half a lifetime
Like swiftly passing thunder dies away.
The century is no more under wardship:
High time to let the future have its say.
It is not revolutions and upheavals
That clear the road to new and better days,
But revelations, lavishness and torments
Of someone's soul, inspired and ablaze.
Scheme | XXXX ABAB ACXC XDXD XEXE |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (80%) Tetractys (20%) |
Metre | 01111101010 0101001 1011111010 01101110 0101001110 1111010101 1011111010 0101010111 11011100110 1101110011 100101010 010111111 0100110101 1101010101 0100111101 1111010111 1110100010 1101110101 1010101 111010001 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 823 |
Words | 144 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 20 |
Letters per line (avg) | 34 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 134 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 28 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 23, 2023
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