Analysis of I would go home again—to rooms...

Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)



I would go home again—to rooms
With sadness large at eventide,
Go in, take off my overcoat,
And in the light of streets outside

Take cheer. I'll pass the thin partitions
Right through; yes, like a beam I'll pass,
As image blends into an image,
As one mass splits another mass.

Let all abiding mooted problems
Deep rooted in our fortunes seem
To some a sedentary habit;
But still at home I brood and dream.

Again the trees and houses breathe
Their old refrain and fragrant air.
Again to right and left old winter
Sets up her household everywhere.

Again by dinner time the dark
Comes suddenly—to blind, to scare,
To teach the narrow lanes and alleys
She'll fool them if they don't take care.

Again, though weak my heart, O Moscow,
I listen, and in words compose
The way you smoke, the way you rise,
The way your great construction goes.

And so I take you as my harness
For the sake of raging days to be,
That you may know our past by heart
And like a poem remember me.


Scheme XAAA XBXB XCAC XDXD XDXD XEXE XFAF
Poetic Form Quatrain  (86%)
Metre 11110111 110111 1011110 00011111 111101010 11110111 110101110 11110101 11010110 110010101 11010010 11111101 01010101 11010101 011101110 110110 01110101 11001111 110101010 11111111 01111111 11000101 01110111 01110101 011111110 101110111 111110111 010100101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 951
Words 184
Sentences 9
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
Lines Amount 28
Letters per line (avg) 27
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 108
Words per stanza (avg) 26
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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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