Nostalgia
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
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The desert sickened,
And lions roared, and dawns of tigers
Took hold of Kipling.
A dried-up well of dreadful longing
Was gaping, yawning.
They swayed and shivered, rubbing shoulders,
Sleek-skinned and tawny.
Since then continuing forever
Their sway in scansion,
They stroll in mist through dewy meadows
Dreamt up by Ganges.
Creeping at dawn in pits and hollows
Cold sunrays fumble.
Funereal, incense-laden dampness
Pervades the jungle.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
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Scheme | AXBC CCBX XADX DEXE |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 473 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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