Analysis of Definition of Creative Art
Boris Pasternak 1890 (Moscow) – 1960 (Peredelkino)
With shirt wide open at the collar,
Maned as Beethoven's bust, it stands;
Our conscience, dreams, the night and love,
Are as chessmen covered by its hands.
And one black king upon the board:
In sadness and in rage, forthright
It brings the day of doom.-Against
The pawn it brings the mounted knight.
In gardens where from icy spheres
The stars lean tender, linger near,
Tristan still sings, like a nightingale
On Isolde's vine, with trembling fear.
The gardens, ponds, and fences, made pure
By burning tears, and the whole great span,
Creation-are only burst of passion
Hoarded in the hearts of men.
Scheme | XAXA XBXB XCXC XXXX |
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Poetic Form | Quatrain (75%) |
Metre | 111101010 11100111 101010101 11110111 01110101 01000111 11011101 01110101 01011101 01110101 11110100 11111001 010101011 110100111 0101101110 1000111 |
Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 607 |
Words | 106 |
Sentences | 6 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 16 |
Letters per line (avg) | 29 |
Words per line (avg) | 6 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 118 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 26 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 19, 2023
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