Analysis of The shiv'ring piano, foaming at the mouth
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
The shiv'ring piano, foaming at the mouth,
Will wrench you by its ravings, discompose you.
'My darling,' you will murmur. 'No!' I'll shout.
'To music?!' Yet can two be ever closer
Than in the dusk, while tossing vibrant chords
Into the fireplace, like journals, tome by tome?
Oh, understanding wonderful, just nod,
And you will know I do not claim to own
Your soul and body. You may go where'er
You want. To others. Werther has been written
Already. Death these days is in the air.
One opens up one's veins much like a window.
| Scheme | XXXA XXXX AXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 0101010101 11111111 1101110111 11011111010 1001110101 01010110111 101010011 0111111111 1101011110 11110101110 0101111001 11011111010 |
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 523 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 3 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 12 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 33 |
| Words per line (avg) | 8 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 133 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 32 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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