The Swifts (1)
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
The swifts have no strength any more to retain,
To check the light-blue evening coolness.
It burst from their breasts, from their throats, under strain
And flows out of hand in its fullness.
There is not a thing that could stop them, up there,
From shrilly, exultedly crying,
Exclaiming: The earth has made off to nowhere,
O look! It has vanished - O triumph!
As cauldrons of water are ended in steam
When quarrelsome bubbles are rising -
Look - there is no room for the earth - from the seam
Of the gorge to the drawn-out horizon!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABAB CDCX EDEX |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 539 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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