Analysis of Spring
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
How many sticky buds, candle ends
sprout from the branches! Steaming
April. Puberty sweats from the park,
and the forest’s blatantly gleaming.
A noose of feathered throats grips
the wood’s larynx, a lassoed steer,
netted, like a gladiatorial organ,
it groans steel-piped sonatas here.
Poetry! Be a Greek sponge with suckers,
among green stickiness drenched,
I’ll consent, by the sopping wood
of a green-stained garden bench.
Grow sumptuous pleats and flounces,
suck up the gullies and clouds,
Poetry, tonight, I’ll squeeze you out
to make the parched sheets flower.
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XXXX XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 110101101 1101010 101001101 001010010 0111011 0110011 1010110 1111101 1001011110 01111 10110101 1011101 1101010 1101001 100011111 1101110 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 91 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 28 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 113 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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