Analysis of Humble home. But rum, and charcoal...
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Humble home. But rum, and charcoal
Grog of sketches on the wall,
And the cell becomes a mansion,
And the garret is a hall.
No more waves of housecoats: questions,
Even footsteps disappear;
Glassy mica fills the latticed
Work-encompassed vault of air.
Voice, commanding as a levy,
Does not leave a thing immune,
Smelting, fusing… In his gullet
Flows the tin of molten spoons.
What is fame for him, and glory,
Name, position in the world,
When the sudden breath of fusion
Blends his words into the Word?
He will burn for it his chattels,
Friendship, reason, daily round.
On his desk-a glass, unfinished,
World forgotten, clock unwound.
Clustered stanzas change like seething
Wax at fortune-telling times.
He will bless the sleeping children
With the steam of molten rhymes.
Scheme | XABA CXDX EXDX EDBD CDDD XFBF |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1011101 1110101 00101010 0010101 1111110 10101 1010101 1010111 10101010 1110101 10100110 1011101 11111010 1010001 10101110 1110101 1111111 1010101 11101010 1010101 10101110 1110101 11101010 1011101 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 758 |
Words | 131 |
Sentences | 10 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 24 |
Letters per line (avg) | 25 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 102 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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