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.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XAXA XXXX XXXX XXXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 566 |
Words | 91 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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