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
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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Boris Pasternak

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

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