Analysis of Feasts
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
I drink the gall of skies in autumn, tuberoses'
Sweet bitterness in your betrayals burning stream;
I drink the gall of nights, of crowded parties' noises,
Of sobbing virgin verse, and of a throbbing dream.
We fiends of studious fight a battle everlasting
Against our daily bread - can't stand the sober mood.
The troubled wind of nights is merely a toastmaster
Whose toasts, as like as not, will do no one much good.
Heredity and death are our guests at table.
A quiet dawn will paint bright-red the tops of trees.
An anapaest, like mice, will on the bread-plate scrabble,
And Cinderella will rush in to change her dress.
The floors have all been swept, and everything is dainty,
And like a child's sweet kiss, breathes quietly my verse,
And Cinderella flees-by cab on days of plenty,
And on shanks' pony when the last small coin is lost.
Scheme | ABAB XXXX CACA DADX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (25%) |
Metre | 1101110101 110001010101 1101111101010 110101010101 1111001010010 0110101110101 010111110010 111111111111 0100011101110 010111110111 11111101110 00101101101 011111010110 010111110011 001011111110 01111011111 |
Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 846 |
Words | 151 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 165 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 37 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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