Analysis of 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!
| Scheme | X ABCX DBBX ABXXX DCXX XX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Etheree (45%) Tetractys (20%) |
| Metre | 11100 1111 1111111 1111110 101101 11110 10100101 10011 11011111 101001 1100100111011 010 101 011110 0100110 10111 010110110 111110 11011111010 11010110111 |
| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 621 |
| Words | 100 |
| Sentences | 13 |
| Stanzas | 6 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 5, 4, 2 |
| Lines Amount | 20 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 24 |
| Words per line (avg) | 5 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 80 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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