Analysis of Beloved, with the spent and sickly fumes...

Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)



Beloved, with the spent and sickly fumes
Of rumour's cinders all the air is filled,
But you are the engrossing lexicon
Of fame mysterious and unrevealed,

And fame it is the soil's strong pull.
Would that I more erect were sprung!
But even so I shall be called
The native son of my own native tongue.

The poets' age no longer sets their rhyme,
Now, in the sweep of country plots and roads,
Lermontov is rhymed with summertime,
And Pushkin rhymes with geese and snow.

And my wish is that when we die,
Our circle closed, and hence depart,
We shall be set in closer rhyme
Than binds the auricle and the heart.

And may our harmony unified
Some listener's muffled ear caress
With all that we do now imbibe,
And shall draw in through mouths of grass.


Scheme XAXA XBXB CXCX XDCD XXXX
Poetic Form
Metre 011010101 111010111 111001010 11010001 01110111 11110101 11011111 0101111101 0101110111 1001110101 111110 01011101 01111111 101010101 11110101 1101001 011010010 1110101 11111101 01101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 732
Words 140
Sentences 7
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 20
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 117
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Boris Pasternak

Boris Leonidovich Pasternak was a Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. more…

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