Analysis of Margarita
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
Sundering the bushes like a snare,
More violet than Margarita's tight-pressed lips,
More passionate than Margarita's white-eyed stare,
The nightingale glowed, royally throbbed and trilled.
Like the scent of grass ascending,
Like the crazed rainfall's mercury, the foliage among,
He stupefied the bark, approached the mouth, panting,
And, halting there, upon a braid he hung.
When Margarita to the light was drawn,
Stroking her eyes with an astonished hand,
It seemed, beneath the helm of branch and rain,
A weary Amazon was fallen to the ground.
Her head in her hand in his hand lay,
Her other arm was bent back up to where,
Dangling, there hung her helmet of shade,
Sundering the branches like a snare.
Scheme | AXAB CDCD XBXB XABA |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
Metre | 1010101 110011111 110011111 01001100101 10111010 101110001001 1101010110 0101010111 101010111 1001110101 1101011101 01010110101 010010111 0101111111 1001101011 1010101 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 696 |
Words | 119 |
Sentences | 5 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 35 |
Words per line (avg) | 7 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 140 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 29 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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