The Girl
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
By a cliff a golden cloud once lingered;
On his breast it slept…
From the swing, from the garden, helter-skelter,
A twig runs up to the glass.
Enormous, close, with a drop of emerald
At the tip of the cluster cast.
The garden is clouded, lost in confusion,
In staggering, teeming fuss.
The dear one, as big as the garden, a sister
By nature-a second glass!
But then this twig is brought in a tumbler
And put by the looking-glass;
Which wonders:-Who is it that blurs my vision,
From the dull, from the prison-class?
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XX ABXX CXAB ABCB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 524 |
Words | 97 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 4, 4, 4 |
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