Analysis of The Window
Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva 1892 (Moscow) – 1941 (Yelabuga, Tatar ASSR)
In the sweet, Atlantic
Breathing of spring
My curtain's like a butterfly,
Huge, fluttering
Like a Hindu widow
To a pyre's golden blaze,
Like a drowsy Naiad
To past-window seas.
| Scheme | ABCBDEDF |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | |
| Metre | 001010 1011 111010 1100 10110 101101 10101 11101 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 177 |
| Words | 32 |
| Sentences | 2 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 17 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 139 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 30 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 27, 2023
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