Dis-stance: versts, miles
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 1892 (Moscow) – 1941 (Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR)
To B. Pasternak
Dis-stance: versts, miles...
They've dis-joined us, dis-mantled us,
So that we would be quiet,
At the world's farthest ends.
Dis-stance: versts, reaches...
They've disbanded, disrupted us,
Disunited and dissolved us,
Not knowing that we are an alloy
Of inspirations and sinews...
They haven't dispirited us, but they've dispersed us,
Dissected...
Wall and moat.
Displaced us, like eagles-
Conspirators: versts, reaches...
Not dismayed, but displanted.
Across the slums of the earth's latitudes
They disarranged us like orphans.
How many is it - oh, how many - Marches?!
Since they disordered us like a deck of cards!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X ABCX DBBX ABXXX DCXX XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 621 |
Words | 100 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 5, 4, 2 |
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